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The Marchesa
- By: Sarah Dunant
- Narrated by: Sarah Dunant
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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From the acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan comes a vibrant exploration of the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time. Her famed collection has long since dispersed or been lost, but what remains is her correspondence–thousands of letters preserved in a deconsecrated church and convent in the archive of Mantua.
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The narrative voice was splendid
- By Mrs.C.Brown, on 15-04-26
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The Marchesa
- Narrated by: Sarah Dunant
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 23-10-25
- Language: English
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The Smallest Man
- By: Frances Quinn
- Narrated by: Alex Wingfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance112
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‘I want you to remember something, Nat. You’re small on the outside. But inside you’re as big as everyone else. You show people that and you won’t go far wrong in life.’ A compelling story perfect for fans of The Doll Factory, The Illumination of Ursula Flight and The Familiars. My...
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Enjoyable and absorbing with excellent narrator
- By Lulabelle on 17-04-21
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The Smallest Man
- Narrated by: Alex Wingfield
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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Mademoiselle Coco
- Y la pasión por el número 5
- By: Michelle Marly
- Narrated by: Eva Coll
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Coco Chanel tuvo una vida de novela. ¡Ahora puedes escucharla! En "Mademoiselle Coco" encontrarás el secreto del perfume más famoso del mundo y la importancia que Coco Chanel daba al número 5. Una novela que no solo revela el significado del mítico Chanel nº5, sino que muestra a una mujer sensible, apasionada y generosa. Por sus páginas desfilan sus grandes amigos y amores, personajes reales como Picasso y Stravinski, y la esencia de ciudades como París o Venecia.
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Mademoiselle Coco
- Y la pasión por el número 5
- Narrated by: Eva Coll
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 13-08-21
- Language: Spanish
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Other Women
- the devastating historical murder mystery inspired by a true story, and Radio 2 Book Club pick
- By: Emma Flint
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey, Sara Poyzer
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance198
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Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. Mesmerising and haunting, Emma Flint's Other Women is a devastating story of fantasy, obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago. 'A pitch-perfect historical mystery' – The Guardian 'Bloody brilliant' – Dinah Jefferies...
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Highly recommended!
- By Ellie on 20-04-23
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Other Women
- the devastating historical murder mystery inspired by a true story, and Radio 2 Book Club pick
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey, Sara Poyzer
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 23-02-23
- Language: English
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The Governess
- By: Wendy Holden
- Narrated by: Freya Mavor
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall171
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Performance153
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Marion Crawford was 22 when she became governess to the young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in 1933. A working-class girl with progressive ideas, she had intended to teach children in the Edinburgh slums. Instead, she had a ringside seat at some of the most seismic events of the 20th century. The castles and palaces housed a family frozen in time. But outside the royal gates, poverty and unemployment were breeding unrest in 1930s Britain. Hitler was on the rise in Europe. If royalty was to survive, it must draw closer to the people.
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A book for teenagers
- By Mrs Kay Smele on 24-08-20
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The Governess
- Narrated by: Freya Mavor
- Series: Royal Outsiders, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
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The Inseparables
- The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir
- By: Simone de Beauvoir, Lauren Elkin - translator, Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir, and others
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance41
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Life without her would be death' The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex. The compulsive story of two friends growing up and falling apart. INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY. When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her...
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Engaging narrative (but no intro or afterword )
- By katy on 21-01-22
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The Inseparables
- The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Orlando
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall441
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Performance369
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Story371
Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.
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Wonderful
- By Phillip on 24-09-09
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Orlando
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-01-05
- Language: English
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A Place Beyond Courage
- William Marshal, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Chadwick
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In England, the Middle Ages are a time for ambitious men to prosper. Before he becomes the father of William Marshal, John FitzGilbert is a man of honor and loyalty, sworn to royal service. When the old king dies, his successor rewards the handsome and ambitious John with castles and lands. But King Stephen has a tenuous hold on his reign over medieval England. In these unstable times, John's loyalty to the British king comes at great cost. So, when jealous rivals at court seek to destroy John, he takes matters into his own hands.
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Boring narrator
- By Mrs Lee OHara on 06-02-25
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A Place Beyond Courage
- William Marshal, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Series: William Marshal, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 21-05-24
- Language: English
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Cecily
- By: Annie Garthwaite
- Narrated by: Olivia Poulet
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance113
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Story111
1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant. England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men within a corrupt government manipulate a weak king - and name Cecily's husband, York's loyal duke, an enemy. As the king's grasp on sanity weakens, plots to destroy York take root. It will take all of Cecily's courage and cunning to save her family. But when the will to survive becomes ambition for a crown, will she risk treason to secure it?
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Loved it
- By Mair on 26-02-23
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Cecily
- Narrated by: Olivia Poulet
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 29-07-21
- Language: English
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The Only Woman in the Room
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance56
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Story56
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.
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A Very Well Read Book
- By Joe on 24-02-21
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The Only Woman in the Room
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-01-19
- Language: English
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Night Side of the River
- Dazzling new ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestseller
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson, Vicky Licorish
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Brought to you by Penguin. A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know...
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thought provoking
- By Amazon Customer on 23-10-23
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Night Side of the River
- Dazzling new ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestseller
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson, Vicky Licorish
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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Daughter of Egypt
- A Novel
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Bessie Carter, Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Known for her “delightful blend of historical fiction and suspense” (People), New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, returns with a sweeping tale of a young woman who unearths the truth about a forgotten Pharaoh—rewriting both of their legacies forever. "Bessie Carter and...
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Daughter of Egypt
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Bessie Carter, Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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My Struggle, Book 1
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall119
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Performance110
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My Struggle: Book One introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable.
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Loved this book
- By Monsaraz on 17-05-15
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My Struggle, Book 1
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Series: My Struggle, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-12-14
- Language: English
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Joe Morton, Roxane Gay, Andrew O'Hagan
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance32
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Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.
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Brautifully performed, repetitive chant
- By JR on 09-04-25
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Narrated by: Joe Morton, Roxane Gay, Andrew O'Hagan
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Painted the Seasons
- A Biographical Novel about Lee Krasner, Who Had an Eye for Genius and a Passion for Art
- By: Penny Fields-Schneider
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Lee Krasner was determined to be an artist. With single-minded passion she pursued her dream. By her twenties she was Hans Hofmann's best student, and a vanguard of America's first art movement, along with de Kooning, Kline and Pollock. But for most of the twentieth century, art was a man's world, and even her peers failed her. Another obstacle for Lee was her marriage to Jackson Pollock, whose star shone so brightly, it cast a shadow over everything around it, eventually self-destructing.
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Interesting but too long!
- By Marjorie Willcox on 11-02-26
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The Woman Who Painted the Seasons
- A Biographical Novel about Lee Krasner, Who Had an Eye for Genius and a Passion for Art
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 23-08-24
- Language: English
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Everything is Illuminated
- By: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Scott Shina
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance61
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Story62
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina. THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD From the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud...
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Awesome book, awesome performance!
- By Edgaras Neverdauskas on 08-05-16
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Everything is Illuminated
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Scott Shina
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 28-04-16
- Language: English
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Die Assistentin
- By: Caroline Wahl
- Narrated by: Caroline Wahl
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Eine Karriere als Musikerin – das war eigentlich Charlottes größter Wunsch. Aber jetzt ist es ja eh zu spät, und sie muss sich um einen vernünftigen Job kümmern, schon wegen der Eltern. Sie findet eine Stelle in einem Verlag, auch nicht schlecht, und München ist eine schöne Stadt, vor allem im Sommer. Im Vorzimmer des Verlegers sitzt Charlotte ganz nah am Zentrum der Macht. Dass der seine Assistentinnen oft auswechselt, kriegt sie schnell mit.
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Die Assistentin
- Narrated by: Caroline Wahl
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: German
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Your Name Here
- By: Helen DeWitt, Ilya Gridneff
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen Dewitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.
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Your Name Here
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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Caesar's Avenger
- The Mark Antony Series, Book 3
- By: Alex Gough
- Narrated by: Andrew James Spooner
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The greatest moment in Roman history, from the perspective of the man who could have had it all.Julius Caesar is dead. Mark Antony, his second in command, is surely also in the sights of the assassins.But for Antony, where there is danger, there is opportunity. Can he seize the chance, and replace Caesar as Rome's undisputed ruler? The portents are good until a young man named Octavian appears, claiming to be Caesar's heir... The following months and years are a time of shifting alliances, betrayals and score-settling.
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superb story
- By Stuart on 19-10-25
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Caesar's Avenger
- The Mark Antony Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: Andrew James Spooner
- Series: The Mark Antony Series, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-06-25
- Language: English
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The Bookseller of Paris
- The Paris Sisters, Book 2
- By: Suzanne Kelman
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Paris, 1940: Madeline tries to scream, but she can’t breathe. A German soldier is working to free her from the rubble–but if he reaches her, he will find the books hidden beneath her clothes… When the Germans seize Paris, its peaceful streets fill with terror overnight, and nowhere is safe. Desperate to help her friends, Parisian bookseller Madeline Valette turns her bookshop into a sanctuary for those in hiding, but she knows it’s only a matter of time before she’s found out.
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The Bookseller of Paris
- The Paris Sisters, Book 2
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Series: The Paris Sisters, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-08-24
- Language: English
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