• The Welsh Girl

  • By: Peter Ho Davies
  • Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
  • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Release date: 02-26-08
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
  • 3 out of 5 stars 3.0 (3 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a 17-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his sense of honour. As their lives intersect, all three will come to question where they belong and where their loyalties lie.
©2007 Peter Ho Davies (P)2007 W F Howes Ltd.
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A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.
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5 out of 5 stars
By David J. Carpenter on 04-27-17

This may just earn me my ''Repeat Listener' badge<br />

Her 'heart rattling like a box of matches in a shirt pocket': with wonderful lines such as this you know you're dealing with a craftsman of words. The story is quite straightforward, but told with a consummate skill thst draws you in and gives real dimension to the characters. As a Welshman of course, it's about home and characters that I recognise and all too easily identify with.

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2 out of 5 stars
By Amelia on 03-18-14

Considering the subject very disappointing

I wanted to read this for some time as on Richard and Judy list and I think it won overall prize for its year.
I read the details of the book with interest and was keen to see what would be said about Hess. I think the writing style was very good in parts but overall there was so much going on with the minute detail that was given and it moved so slowly that I felt I quite lost the will to live with it. Even the Welsh Girl did not have much to her character that would hold interest. I am not Welsh so the other reviewers comments re the wrong accent meant nothing to me It sounded Welsh when the reader read in Welsh but really that was very little and mainly read with a British accent. I will be asking Audible for a refund on this one. Very disappointed Could not recommend.

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