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Wideacre

Wideacre, Book 1

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Wideacre

By: Philippa Gregory
Narrated by: Emma Powell
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Featuring a foreword recorded exclusively for Audible by Philippa Gregory and an interview with the author.

Philippa Gregory's first story in the best-selling Wideacre trilogy. A compelling tale of passion and intrigue set in the 18th century. From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover.

Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the 18th century, she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others.

Sexual and willful, she believes that the only way to achieve control over Wideacre is through a series of horrible crimes, and no-one escapes the consequences of her need to possess the land.

©2006 Philippa Gregory (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Women's Fiction

Critic Reviews

"The eighteenth-century woman is a neglected creature but, in the figure of her heroine, Philippa Gregory has defined a certain kind of wildness.... This is a novel written from instinct, not out of calculation, and it shows." (Peter Ackroyd, The Times)
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I enjoyed this book which is well researched and interesting. However Beatrice was such an amoral and uncaring person that I began to wish she would leave the book and let us get on with life in a Sussex village.

Hard not to wish the heroine did not die sooner

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I stopped listening after Mama died … I don’t know if I could have handled 10 more tragic hours of crisis after crisis all revolving around a piece of land.
I like the idea but this dragged on.

Too much

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I enjoy this book so much as good to have a heroin who was so evil for a change ..love the pictures the descriptions bring to mind looking forward to the next in the series

Loved this

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This book is amazing...so glad it was in the included list. first time reading this author and my mind was blown. Possibly the most original and entertaining book I have readdress in a long time. The main character puts the most villainous villans to shame. The journey you are taken on in this brilliant novel will leave you speechless. Very original and entertaining novel. Hats off for the brilliance

brilliant and original

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The perfection of the narration made this story so excitingly chilling. The story left me uncomfortable at times and I couldn’t stop listening as it spiralled out of control to the inevitable end. Loved it!

Perfect Narration

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