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The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy

By: Julia Quinn
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
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Sir Richard Kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. He knows he can't be too picky, but when he sees Iris Smythe-Smith hiding behind her cello at her family's infamous musicale, he thinks he might have struck gold. She's the type of girl you don't notice until the second - or third - look, but there's something about her, something simmering under the surface, and he knows she's the one.

Iris Smythe-Smith is used to being underestimated. With her pale hair and quiet, sly wit she tends to blend into the background, and she likes it that way. So when Richard Kenworthy demands an introduction, she is suspicious. He flirts, he charms, he gives every impression of a man falling in love, but she can't quite believe it's all true. When his proposal of marriage turns into a compromising position that forces the issue, she can't help thinking that he's hiding something... even as her heart tells her to say yes.

©2015 Julie Cotler Pottinger (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Heartfelt
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Slow to start but hang in there it us worth the listen. 🥰. I have listen to it twice now and it gets better with every listen.

Slow start great ending

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Different background story which was a change, interesting and well written. Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended

Good read

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Voiceover, story line, character back ground, suspense, length of chapters, ending, epilogue, referral of other characters in preceding books

Story line

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i enjoyed this more than the first one of the series . Enjoying the smythes-smith storyline

enjoying symthe-smith storyline

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Excellent narration as always. Enjoyed the story a lot, Iris is wonderful! Still found myself shouting at it when the characters wouldn’t get to the conclusion I figured out but they hadn’t yet.

Lovely addition to the series

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I adored this book. The tension, the mystery, the resolve, delightful listen. amazing narration as always!

lovely listen

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How is the main character’s manipulation of Iris acceptable? He takes away her ability to make a really important decision and we are supposed to see it as ok since he is doing it to help his sister. I can’t even

The awful manipulation by sir Richard

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If you like Plain, Smart English Woman Rescued by Foolish Fops (stupid rigid debonair types with emotional literacy issues), choose this! Saving grace is the dulcet tones of Ms Landor as narrator. Sir Richard is, I’m afraid, completely unbelievable.

Silly but well read

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If this had been the first of Julia Quinn books then I would not have gone on to read others. As it was I had read a lot of others and was very disappointed by this one. The story was almost non existent. I only continued on to the end as I thought it had to get better. Could have saved myself a lot of time by just listening to the last hour.

Least favourite book

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Sir Richard Kenworthy is so manipulative, dishonest and without scruples when it came to his new wife, Iris, that I found the tale utterly depressing. A pity as the Iris character is a gem. This was the 11th of Quinn's books I've read, and the last for a while, or at least until I'm sure not to confront another Richard Kenworthy!

Depressing

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