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  • A Gentleman Tutor

  • By: Harper Fox
  • Narrated by: Callum Hale
  • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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A Gentleman Tutor

By: Harper Fox
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For Frank Harte, impoverished schoolteacher, January in London means a yearly fight to survive. A former soldier, his injuries have barred him from all but the lowest paid posts, and the cold incapacitates him still more.

The chance to work as tutor to Viscount Gracewater, son of the famous big-game hunting Earl, comes as a lifeline to Frank. The Earl’s Knightsbridge mansion is huge, elegant - and, most temptingly, kept warm from basement to attics. Viscount “Scapegrace” Gracie, used to foreign climes, is delicate. He’s also wild, charming, and only five years younger than Frank himself. His innocence and feckless good nature soon endear him to the quiet, reserved tutor. But the Earl’s house is a dark one beneath its bright veneer, and the Viscount is in the thrall of unscrupulous Arthur Dickson, a handsome, brutal parasite who’ll stop at nothing to retain his power over Gracie’s heart and soul. 

Edwardian secrets burgeon as Frank begins a battle to free his student, confronting along the way the knowledge that he’s losing his own heart to this brilliant and beautiful young man.

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Compelling but nightmarish scenario!

Barely surviving financially and permanently injured from the war, school teacher Frank Harte is tempted by the job of tutoring the unruly Viscount Gracewater, son of a rich earl. Initially the job, conditions, and salary seem to good to be true and Frank, a principled man, works hard to bring Gracie to heel. Over time, Frank learns nothing is as it seems and the thin veneer of gentlemanly behaviour masks increasingly nightmarish truths. While I found this historical romance hard to put down, it was a pretty disturbing story. While Frank remained a paragon of virtue, he was one of the few who did. The writing was typical Harper Fox: beautiful and evocative prose about flawed, unhappy characters; however, everything happened in such an incredibly short time frame (2-3 weeks) that it strained credulity. UK voice actor Callum Hale really did justice to the prose and the emotion of the story (currently free on the Audible Plus catalogue).

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