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The Proposal

By: Mary Balogh
Narrated by: Rebecca De Leeuw
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Summary

Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Mary Balogh delights fans with historical romantic tales that touch the heart. After her husband dies in a freak accident, Lady Gwendoline Muir never dreams she’ll love again. So when soldier-turned-nobleman Lord Hugo Trentham stirs feelings in her that have lain dormant for years, she can’t help but imagine his strong embrace. Hugo finds himself drawn to Gwen, but he’s never courted a woman before. Can he muster the right words to make Gwen open her heart and love once more?

©2012 Mary Balogh (P)2012 Recorded Books, LLC
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A fun read

Story was well paced with good characters. Narrator was excellent. Highly recommend this audiobook, a lovely summer book with nothing too stressful!

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Simply WONDERFUL…

This book is from start to finish WONDERFUL- the characters are charming and loveable… the plot great 👍

And the narrator did a fantastic job in keeping one enticed from start to finish…

Now I shall look forward to the next book in this series :-)

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Superb performance

It is like listening to a play. Also a good storyline. Listened to it a couple of times actually.

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Enjoyable

Love conquers all and there is a lot of trauma, insecurity and class difference to overcome. The narrator was very good.

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excellent

Loved it, relaxing , not too agonising, just a lovely story with life like characters and a good vocabulary

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Speedier narration helped

Easy to read / listen, as usual with Mary Balogh. Believable people who had depth of character. The narration was realistic, although a bit slow, and this was getting in the way. At 1.2 I found it much improved.

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Joy

Lovely story well written I’ve enjoyed listening to this and others by Mary Ballard how to find a new

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Delightfully philosophical and full of human understanding.

Tackles class issues in a realistic way, favouring the emerging middle class. Good on psychological topics, too.

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Good story, shame about the narration.

I enjoyed the story. I really love that as I have read/listened Mary's other novel's, so I know other characters and their back story. It adder depth. sadly, the performance lacked. the accents I felt changed and didn't fit and I found it didn't seem to run smoothly, a little with enthusiasm.
overall a good story.

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Gentle giant meets dainty flower

I liked the idea of survivors of war meeting up yearly to regroup and recuperate.
The sheer confidence of hero and heroine’s first encounter seems so unlikely that it it’s almost probable
Whether in real life their separate worlds would have blended is questionable but it all came together to make a very beautiful story.
However, heroine’s continued insistence that there will be no marriage, whilst doing the opposite behind closed doors was grating on the nerves

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