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    The Widow's Confession
    The Widow's Confession
    The Widow's Confession
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Widow's Confession

    Written by Sophia Tobin

    Narrated by Christine Mackie

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    About this audiobook

    The new novel from the author of the Sunday Timesbestseller, The Silversmith's Wife. Stunning historical fiction, perfect for fans of Tracy Chevalier.

    Broadstairs, Kent, 1851. Once a sleepy fishing village, now a select sea-bathing resort, this is a place where people come to take the air, and where they come to hide…

    Delphine and her cousin Julia have come to the seaside with a secret, one they have been running from for years. The clean air and quiet outlook of Broadstairs appeal to them and they think this is a place they can hide from the darkness for just a little longer. Even so, they find themselves increasingly involved in the intrigues and relationships of other visitors to the town.

    But this is a place with its own secrets, and a dark past. And when the body of a young girl is found washed up on the beach, a mysterious message scrawled on the sand beside her, the past

    returns to haunt Broadstairs and its inhabitants. As the incomers are drawn into the mystery and each others' lives, they realise they cannot escape what happened here years before…

    A compelling story of secrets, lies and lost innocence…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio UK
    Release dateNov 19, 2015
    ISBN9781471155680
    The Widow's Confession
    Author

    Sophia Tobin

    Sophia Tobin was raised in Kent. She has studied History and History of Art, and worked for a Bond Street antique dealer for six years, specialising in silver and jewellery. She currently works in a library and archive. Inspired by her research into a real eighteenth-century silversmith, Tobin began to write The Silversmith’s Wife, which was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize.  It was published by Simon & Schuster in 2014. Her second novel, The Widow’s Confession, was published in 2015, and her third, The Vanishing, in 2017. Tobin lives in London with her husband.

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    • 5/5
      Captivating from the start, vivid Interesting varied characters! It was not predictable but did not disappoint. Bravo!!

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    • 2/5
      It was extremely hard to follow all the characters there was a story there but it seemed to jump around from character to character pity as I think the story teller has a gift. But needs to remember that the person reading is not in their head. Found it hard to keep the people names to the characters to many might have been better written in two books

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    • 2/5
      I try to get into this book but could not the characters development was very poor the story is slow and tepid the narrator didn't help I had the skip alot of pages to get to the end

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