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Abdication

By: Juliet Nicolson
Narrated by: Carole Boyd
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England, 1936. A beloved king is dead, and by year’s end, the charismatic new monarch will give up his throne for love. The world is on the brink of war. And in the tumultuous intervening months, three outsiders will find themselves embroiled in the hidden truths, undeclared loves, unspoken sympathies, and covert complicities of a glittering high society in the throes of upheaval. After a long journey from her home in Barbados, May Thomas secures a position as a secretary and driver and opens her heart to a man seemingly beyond her reach. Outwardly affable American spinster Evangeline Nettlefold finds her place in the uppermost social circles, but her growing resentment toward her childhood friend Wallis Simpson predicts disaster. A friendship catapults Julian Richardson from his mother’s middle-class parlor to luxurious dinners with the king, yet he cannot forget those who struggle outside the gilded gates, nor his uneasy affection for May. As addictive as Downton Abbey, as poignant as The Remains of the Day, renowned historian Juliet Nicolson’s debut novel is a breathtaking story inspired by a love affair that shook the world at a time when order and chaos battled for supremacy.
©2012 Juliet Nicolson  (P)2014 Audible Inc.
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“Goodness, Abdication really is good. I’m in awe of Juliet’s ability.” (Jessica Fellowes, New York Times best-selling author of The World of Downton Abbey)

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Historians do not always make good novelists

I might have enjoyed this book more if I had not just heard a history of George VI, a biography of Mrs Simpson and read a book about Oswald Mosley's first wife and her sisters. I feel that this was just a collection of well known facts about a group of well known people with a couple of fictional characters thrown in and very little story to link them all together. I kept listening in the hope that something major would happen. Alas, nothing of real interest did happen.

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