a great read

this book is based around 5 female characters who were all very different, but yet easy to like them all. a great plot and well written to keep me involved in the story and what happened next. Would recommend as an easy page turner read

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Drop the accents

Good story but since when did east end Londoners have West Country lilting accents?! It started to confuse and irritate me which spoiled the story - maybe the reader should have just read the story and not tried to do accents 🙄

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A story that turns into a spy story.

Excellent book, had to re listen several times and kept thinking that bit wasn't there last time I listened!!! Not so sure about the reader, she pronounces some words most oddly. A plait of hair is not pronounced like plate but like flat. Very unusual spy story I had never thought of water as a guide to aircraft but now it is so obvious. I really recommend this book.

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excellent story.

loved it, very nicely packaged storyline, bringing all the strands together very well. Tells the story of WW2, from a female perspective, a very refreshing and unexpected approach.

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Really enjoyable story

I thoroughly enjoyed this story and glad I stuck with it. However, I hate to say anything derogatory about narrators because I think they do a fantastic job, but this one - oh dear, she is obbviously American and her own accent was fine. Her english accents were dreadful, so much so, that if the story had not been enjoyable I would have given up. It was a shame really if she had just read it in her own accent all the way through it would probably have been better.

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Amusing accent

I've just started listening to this book (my first audio book) in my car, and it's making the daily commute a lot more pleasant. I have to echo many of the other comments about the narration though, it is pretty bad to the point of being funny. They definitely don't talk with a Bristol twang in Sussex, in fact it even sounded a bit Irish at one point today, much to my amusement. The German speaking Tanni occasionally sounds Japanese, and I wish that Americans would steer clear of cockney accents. That said, it hasn't put me off, far from it as I am enjoying the story, and now looking for more audio books to help make my journey less onerous.

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The readers voices

The reader's performance let this book down. I disliked the silly voices and awful accents. The story was good

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Poor Narration Good Story

What did you like most about War Brides?

The story was good and that is the only reason I kept going, the narration was comic - simple English words like "fete" pronounced as fet amongst a host of other words poorly pronounced.

What did you like best about this story?

The characters were interesting and varied

Would you be willing to try another one of Tavia Gilbert’s performances?

I think an American trying to impersonate a cockney accent was probably too much for this narrator

Any additional comments?

It would be nice if the narrators actually researched how to pronounce basic English words, overall the narration was laughable

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Wonderfully evocative book

My grandmother and her sisters were evacuated from Bethnal Green during the war so I grew up with similar stories of rationing and and hardship. However the full range of the women’s stories are much wider and more poignant. Laughed, cried, swore, smiled. Beautiful book, expertly woven and read perfectly.

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Great Story, just ignore the bizarre accents

I had to persevere a little at the beginning but turned out to be a great story.

Really not sure why the narrator is American when most of the book is full of different British accents. There are some truly bizarre interpretations of certain accents peppered with American pronunciations. However, the narration is smooth and at a good pace.

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