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The Guinness Girls: A Hint of Scandal
- Narrated by: Roisin Rankin
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
Following the best-selling success of The Glorious Guinness Girls comes a stunning new novel following the three enigmatic sisters as they set out on married life.
It's the dawn of the 1930s, and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London.
But while Britain becomes increasingly politically polarised, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh discover conflict within their own marriages.
Oonagh's dream of romantic love is countered by her husband's lies; the intense nature of Maureen's marriage means passion, but also rows; while Aileen begins to discover that, for her, being married offers far less than she had expected.
Meanwhile, Kathleen, a housemaid from their childhood home in Glenmaroon, travels between the three sisters, helping, listening, watching - even as her own life brings her into conflict with the clash between fascism and communism.
As affairs are uncovered and secrets exposed, the three women begin to realise that their gilded upbringing could not have prepared them for the realities of married life, nor for the scandals that seem to follow them around.
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- michael mcgrath
- 16-02-24
Interesting historically
The narration spoiled what is otherwise an enjoyable book. Stilted and some mispronunciations. The narrator should have read more carefully and taken advice on how to pace sentences.
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