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Belle

By: Lesley Pearse
Narrated by: Sherry Baines
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Belle, from the number one best-selling author, Lesley Pearse. She witnessed a murder - and now her life is in danger. Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast into a cruel, heartless world. Snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, she is made a courtesan in New Orleans. At the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and will do anything to keep her, Belle's dreams of home, family and freedom appear futile. Are Belle's courage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home? Lesley Pearse, author of number one bestseller Stolen, has done it again with Belle - a heroine for our times: a strong woman trying to be good in a world gone bad.

©2014 Lesley Pearse (P)2014 Penguin Audio 20th Century Historical Mystery Romance Women's Fiction Fiction Heartfelt Suspense
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Horrible horrible scenes about child rape / trafficking but if you can push though that it has a story line leaving you want to know what happens next. Dragged on a bit in the end. Could have finished two hours before it did and be satisfied

Overall intreging story

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Struggled in parts but overall the storyline was good and kept me wanting to know what happens next

A cliffhanging read

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A little predictable and chic flick but a good story covering England, France and USA. Will eventually read the follow ups just to see where they take the heroine.

An interesting view into the underworld

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Very good book…thoroughly enjoyed! Looking forward to the next 2 books, really engrossed in the story.

Wonderful read!

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If you could sum up Belle in three words, what would they be?

What a life

What did you like best about this story?

Has you hooked from the being to the end

Which character – as performed by Sherry Baines – was your favourite?

Mog and Artin

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Most of it

Any additional comments?

Nil

Great listen

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It dragged a little bit and of course quite similar to her other books, but still enjoyable. she portrays emotions so well that you are constantly hooked.

Good read

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Great Start to the collection.

Iv Read the Books but the audiobooks are better.

The good thing about audiobooks is that you can be doing other things while listening to them. 👍🏻

Highly recommend

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I found the story ok, definitely one of the lesser ones (have read a lot of LP's books).
The most annoying thing I found was the narrator. She kept having these pauses mid sentence, extremely annoying and badly narrated. Won't listen to part 2 and 3 of this series!

Narrator very annoying - listen to sample first

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