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Like No Other

By: Anna Jacobs
Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
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Summary

Rachel Smedling is not like the other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger, and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems to hate her so much, he would happily offer money to any man who would wed her.

When her mother dies, Rachel is at the mercy of her increasingly violent father.

Her only escape is marrying a kindly man with whom she finds happiness, if not passion, and her life begins to seem complete.

Rachel's growing prosperity infuriates her father and his cronies, however, and they will stop at nothing to see her destroyed.

©1999 Anna Jacobs (P)2004 Isis Publishing Ltd
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Good story line

Enjoyed the story and would recommend it. It has its ups and downs throughout. The ending was very interesting and kept me interested. Really enjoy Anne Jacob’s.

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The voice charactorising.

Dislike dress details which I considered unnecessary to the content of the very good story.

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Fully engaging listen!

Thoroughly enjoyed, and loved the story!
The characters and story were believable and I was invested in their outcomes.

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Like no other

Loved it kept me interested all the way through, it took me a while to get to the end of the book it was so relaxing I had to keep winding back as I kept falling asleep

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Like No Other

Loved it! These books, written by Anna Jacobs, get better every time I listen to one and Nicolette McKenzie is such a good narrator.

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Ending was poor

I love the story it was so gripping that I stayed up all night listening, I was so disappointed when the Ending was so poor.

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great!

another worth the time to listen. couldn't put it down. Will have more by this author.

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Story was gripping

My favourite Anna Jacobs story so far. Thorougly engaging amd the brilliant narration brought the story to life.

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So worth a credit

Brilliantly read, hats off to Nicolette. What a story, definitely worth a listen if you want to be taken back, you can really feel how tough it was for women. A straight forward story, not complicated and I could imagine all the characters so easily, I couldn’t stop listening.

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Loved this book

The narrator really brings the characters to life. The story line is really good and holds your attention all the time.

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