
The Whalebone Theatre
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Narrated by:
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Olivia Vinall
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By:
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Joanna Quinn
About this listen
Brought to you Penguin.
'Maudie, why are all the best characters men?'
Maudie closes the book with a clllump. 'We haven't read all the books yet, Miss Cristabel. I can't believe that every story is the same.'
Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place at all for her in a traditional English manor.
But from the day that a whale washes up on the beach at the Chilcombe estate in Dorset, and 12-year-old Cristabel plants her flag and claims it as her own, she is determined to do things differently.
With her step-parents blithely distracted by their endless party guests, Cristabel and her siblings, Flossie and Digby, scratch together an education from the plays they read in their freezing attic, drunken conversations eavesdropped through oak-panelled doors, and the esoteric lessons of Maudie their maid.
But as the children grow to adulthood and war approaches, jolting their lives on to very different tracks, it becomes clear that the roles they are expected to play are no longer those they want. As they find themselves drawn into the conflict, they must each find a way to write their own story....
©2022 Joanna Quinn (P)2022 Penguin AudioSo glad i took a chance on this one!
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Sublime
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Wonderful book
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It took me a while to get into this audiobook, it has an air of terrible sadness and loss but I kept coming back to it because of how beautifully the story unfolds.
Melancholy
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Captivating.
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Great central character, the story takes some unexpected turns as she moves through turbulent period of history that impacted the way we live today.
Highly recommended
Beautiful and engaging story, well told
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Unexpected
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A heartfelt book
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Drama unfolds slowly between world wars, and two generations of the Seagrave family as children grow up in a country estate in Dorset. I didn’t fully anticipate just how detailed the depiction of WWII would be. Two the of the children end up in occupied France. Joanna Quinn beautifully and sensitively tells stories of the recruitment of agents, drops into France, separation, and how protagonist Christabel watches a train filled with prisoners disappear.
I really felt for these characters. It’s a long one but very enjoyable,
Beautiful story
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Brilliant family drama
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