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Harriet

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Louise Barrett
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Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a somewhat eccentric scriptwriter. A whole host of visitors began to arrive to disrupt Harriet's peaceful routine: first Cory's estranged wife Noel, then his brother Kit and finally, of all people, Simon...©1976 Jilly Cooper (P)2017 W.F. Howes Ltd Fiction Romance Women's Fiction
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I first read this in about 1980, and I like the story. I’m really disappointed with the reading of it though. I think the narrator has put a lot of effort into trying to keep the tone lively, but the pitch is all over the place, the rhythm all wrong, and the acting and emphasis very weird. It would have been better had she just read it normally.

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