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  • The Daring Girls of Guernsey

  • A Novel of World War II
  • By: Gayle Callen
  • Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
  • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Daring Girls of Guernsey

By: Gayle Callen
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
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Summary

From USA Today bestselling author Gayle Callen comes a fascinating historical novel of three courageous young women who aid a desperate British spy during the German occupation of Guernsey Island in World War II.

In 1940, Germany seizes control of Guernsey without a fight—but not without resistance. Innocent young teacher Catherine is forced to house a German officer. Shrewd waitress Betty seeks to elude the persistent Nazi determined to conquer her. And courageous nurse Helen cares for her patients—both British and German—while hiding a British spy in her seaside cottage.

Their fight against the injustices being enacted on their island home brings the women, the spy, and their enemies together in one night that will change all of their lives forever. Though none of them could foresee that the battle they fought that night would reach across time to 1997, when the tragic fallout ensnares Helen once more.

©2021 Gayle Kloecker Callen (P)2022 Tantor
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Great Story

I really enjoyed the story and the characters. Found it a bit confusing and unclear at the end..had to go back to the first chapter but still slightly confusing ... Catherine died but not clear whether she was murdered or what?
The Narrator not bad but a bit too samey with each character.
On the whole a good story. 👍

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Boring and predictable

This review is being written before I even reached the half way mark as I am now bored to tears with the inevitable romantic threads running through the story and have already marked it as read.

The story would have been bearable although the narrator (award winning I believe) can be incredibly irritating at times especially like many narrators, when they attempt, and fail miserably, at putting on ridiculous accents for different characters.

I had never heard of Gayle Callen but downloaded the audiobook because it was free and the subject matter was of interest to me.

Not long into the book I detected that the author might have been American as there were several words and references used in the 1940s segments that were definitely not common parlance, on this side of the pond, in 1940's English.(Author must do better research)

If I had researched Gayle Callen before downloading the book I would have definitely judged her by the covers of her other titles. Most of them seem to have images of topless oiled-up gentlemen and swooning ladies in a state of partial undress with their girdles and corsets unbuttoned in a very unladylike fashion. They could have been penned by the pink feather-quilled Barbara Cartland and graced the Mills & Boon section of bookshops.

As Miss Jean Brodie said "For those that like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like

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