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The Girl at the Lion D'Or

By: Sebastian Faulks
Narrated by: James Wilby
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A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy H-tel du Lion d'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930s. The Girl at the Lion d'Or is the first book in Sebastian Faulks' French trilogy of novel. Birdsong and Charlotte Gray are also available from Random House Audio Books, read by Samuel West.

©1993 Sebastian Faulks (P)2011 Random House AUDIO GO 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Small Town & Rural
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Very good story, interesting and well written.
I did find the voice irritating. Being a delicate young gFrench girl, I thought it would have been improved by having a female voice or even a male and female voice.

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