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The Married Girls
- Narrated by: Juliette Burton
- Series: The Girl with No Name, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
The highly anticipated sequel to The Girl with No Name, a heart-warming family saga from bestselling author, Diney Costeloe.
The war is over, but trouble is brewing....
Wynsdown, 1949. In the small Somerset village of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married and now feels settled in her adopted home after arriving from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war.
Meanwhile, the squire's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming...and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some of Daphne's past, but she has worked hard to conceal one that could unravel her carefully built life.
For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but Harry's return disrupts the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads.
The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning.
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- Teresa
- 15-10-2017
disappointing
the story lacked a purpose. The title had little to do with the actual story and it was a shame that the same narrator as girl with no name wasn't used on this book as the pronunciation of Lezza in the first book then Lisa in this one was noticable on an audio book, it's almost as if 2 different authors wrote these books. Lezza was strong and confident in the first book and came across as a little dimwitted in this one. The original Lezza I'm sure would have gently corrected her children's grammar and not just let them have their own way. The Harry story line was disappointing and I can't believe he would have just gone to Australia and never contacted his friend again. There are too many little inconsitancies to truly be called a sequel. it was predictable and frustrating.
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- Eleanor Berze
- 02-01-2021
Greta read
Hubby and I loved it as much as the first
Hope theres another one to come to continue the love story and see where other things end up.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-01-2019
Fabulous Sequal
I hope there is more to come. The accents and gender/age voices were off putting compared to Book one, but was still a great listen.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-01-2019
Great read
I loved every minute of the book looking forward to reading more from Diney Costeloe
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- Anonymous User
- 21-12-2018
Great sequel
I loved this story, but didn't enjoy the narration. Using the original would've be far better. It completely changed the personality of the characters.
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- carol Vona
- 12-09-2018
Fantastic sequel to a girl with no name!!!
Great story wonderful characters and excellent narrator! Loved every chapter could not stop listening to this story. I did not want it to end.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-08-2018
Loved this book
Another fantastic book, great narrator. would definitely recommend it. Ihopethere is another to follow on
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- Sue T
- 16-07-2018
Enjoyable story
Easy to get into & enjoy the storyline and liked the narrator's 'voices' of the characters.
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- Kim
- 18-05-2018
When is the third in the series out?!?!
I loved the first book, loved the second, now waiting for the third to come out. You really grow to love the characters and yearn to go on in their lives. Great read/listen!!!
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- Anonymous User
- 24-09-2017
Good story with narration disconnect.
Decent sequel but would be far better as an audio book I'd narrated by the same person as the first book. Different voices and accents makes for an uneasy start to the story.
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- Lucy
- 06-06-2018
Couldn't finish it
I loved the first book in this series but I found this one incredibly dull and missing all the charm of the first. Didn't finish it
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-04-2021
Thoughily enjoyable
Loved the first book and now the sequel. Couldn't stop listening. Excellent story and narration alike.
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- Atheana
- 24-09-2020
One hell of a disappointment
Having listened to and thoroughly enjoyed “the girl with no name”, I could not wait to get started on the sequel, Married Girls. I cannot believe that both books were written by the same author! I listened and listened and listened and finally gave up on on this book. First of all, it is a real shame that the same narrator was not used for both books. The masculine “voices” in this book were risible! The narration was not a patch on its predecessor. But most important of all, the story was beyond boring. I can always tell when an audiobook is good because I don’t fall asleep to it LOL. With this book I could not stay awake! The storyline is bland, insipid and BORING. Because I enjoyed the first book so much I stuck with this until I just could take no more. What a disappointment!
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- Sigrin
- 13-12-2017
The chronicles continue
Another great continuation from the girl with no name.
This book has great characters, it is set in post war England and has good story lines.
It reminds me slightly of the Clifton chronicles by Jeffrey Archer.
This book can be read in its own but is better read as the second book in the series.
I will look forward to the next instalment.
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- mrs susan white
- 07-04-2021
Great story
very good story but most books I get on here are brilliant glad I joined.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-03-2021
Married girls
Bit slow story accents we're good but not so gripping a story as anticipated. Disappointed sorry
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- Rosielil
- 11-02-2021
Not that gripping a story line.
I was a little disappointed to the story line after reading the reviews, I think some people have rated this book too high and I think I've been generous to give it 3 stars.
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- Eithne Ni Cheadaigh
- 02-01-2021
Ties up loose ends from the first book
Having integrating twists and turns of events this book does keep you reading. The first book is a must read to get the maximum enjoyment and understanding of the charters and storyline. This book is very much a romantic novel with brief encounters of lust and erotic behaviours.
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- Sonia Gower
- 16-10-2020
Not as good as the first book
The story was ok but it was the voices..... they were dreadful. The main narration was ok. Why did you have to use different narrators?? I think I will read the next book rather than listen to those whining voices!
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- Jules
- 19-08-2020
Fabulous
This book comes after The Girl with no Name I couldn’t wait to start it after finishing the first one. Again it was very well written and was an excellent story but sad in parts. The narrator wasn’t quite as good as the first book but did a good job. I suspect that listening straight after the first book. I’d become so used to the characters and the way they were portrayed by the narrator of the first book. It’d be nice to see a third book but suspect that it will not happen as it came to a nice conclusion.
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