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The Tuscan Child

By: Rhys Bowen
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Katy Sobey
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From New York Times best-selling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets....

In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.

Nearly 30 years later, Hugo's estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father's funeral. Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia. In it is a startling revelation.

Still dealing with the emotional wounds of her own personal trauma, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to Tuscany to understand her father's history - and maybe come to understand herself as well. Joanna soon discovers that some would prefer the past be left undisturbed, but she has come too far to let go of her father's secrets now....

Cover design by Shasti O'Leary Soudant

©2018 Janet Quin-Harkin (Writing as Rhys Bowen) (P)2018 Audible, Inc. 20th Century Cosy Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Women's Fiction Italy Aviation
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A new and interesting WW2 story told as a flash back by the daughter of a pilot who had survived after crashing his plane on a bombing mission over Italy. Brilliant characters and a excellent portrayal of a modern small Italian town. The background story is a page turner and the mystery not revealed until the end. The romance develops believably and I liked the ending.

The Tuscan Child

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Had me entranced from beginning to end,love the picture that was evoked by the plot.
Have been a big Rhys Bowen fan since reading my first Royal Spyness mystery.
Hope we get to experience more from my favourite author soon.

Great listen

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Written so vidily I felt I was there in the scene with the characters. Great story with an optimistic outlook. It took me a while to get used to the narration as it was dramatised. However I would highly recommend this book for its storyline and imagry.

Recommend!

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Would you consider the audio edition of The Tuscan Child to be better than the print version?

I found it a bit slow going as an audio book. If I read the print version, I probably would have skimmed some of the long descriptions. That said, I listened to the end and enjoyed some of the twists and turns.

An easy listen

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I made it to chapter 11 before I just had to give in with this book. The narrator had the most annoying reading style where every sentence she read went up at the end as if every sentence was a question and she had this high pitched whiney voice that just got on my nerves every time she spoke . Unfortunately she did most of the 2 part reading. The man's voice was much better but with the annoying woman's voice and the pretty average and not too enthralling story line I lost interest very quickly. Wasted one of my precious credits on this book 😕

Terrible !

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I really didn’t enjoy this. The reader’s voices were distracting, the characters were cheesy, seemingly no time had been spent researching beyond some time in Tuscany. The caricatures...oops, I mean characters! The brash, uncaring, money obsessed yank...the too-polite-for-his-own-good upper class English gent, the gorgeous but waifish English heroine, the eager Italian homely lady eager to fatten her up, the ogling Italian, the conveniently handsome Italian untouched by his evil benefactors bad traits...ugh!

Predictable, corny sprinkle with melodrama

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