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Escape to the Country
- Welcome to Willow Tree Hall, Book 2
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Journalist Eleanor McCartney leads a glamorous life in London exposing the sordid secrets of famous celebrities for Hot Gossip! magazine. But her perfect life is a sham. So when her world collapses, she has to reluctantly head home to her mum and friends in the quiet country village of Cranley.
Willow Tree Hall is still in the midst of extensive renovations under the careful eye of Eleanor's best friend, Annie, and her fiancé, record producer and future Earl of Cranley Sam Harris.
With a recording studio now in the grounds of the estate, it should be the perfect place for global singing sensation Tom Kingsley to hang out. But Tom is burnt out after a gruelling worldwide tour and is escaping the paparazzi after yet another scandal.
Eleanor cannot believe her luck. A story on the world's biggest superstar would be the ticket that gets her job and glamorous life back in London.
But soon both Eleanor and Tom begin to fall under the spell of Willow Tree Hall. Eleanor begins to wonder whether she can really betray his trust. And does she really want her old life back, or is home really where the heart lies?
As a heat wave soars, friendships are made, truths are told and, with the help of a stray dog, perhaps love can be found as hearts are healed.
By escaping to the country, maybe Eleanor and Tom have found their new beginning....
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- Charlotte S
- 24-12-22
Accents a little mismatched
As with other reviews I was disappointed that a different narrator was used and accents didn’t seem to match some of the characters. Lovely story, predictable but a warm easy listen.
As an aside, also disappointed to see that the next book in the series is not on audible.
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- Maria Baldwin
- 20-05-23
Enjoyable and worth a listen too but ….
Narrator was annoying with her interpretation of some characters but still a good chilled listen
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- Sarah Bassindale
- 24-02-21
Another great book!
I bought the audio book. Great story and wonderful characters.
The only thing that spoiled it was the different narrator and voices from the first book.
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- bizzylizzy
- 09-10-23
Loved it
Brilliant story well written and was thoroughly enjoyable. I’d love a follow up please please
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- Sheila McCluskey Carroll
- 22-08-24
So enjoyable
Great range of characters! All believable and interesting. I struggled with differentiating the male voices but it worked and isn’t easy for a female narrator who seemed to throw herself whole heartedly into sharing the story. I’ve already downloaded book 3. Well done
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- linda
- 18-07-22
story spoiled by the narrator.
good story bad narration. Sam Harris is a future earl not an East End barrow boy. Totally wrong accent for the character. Research by narrator would have been good plus listening to first book. I am surprised this was not picked up. it really spoiled the story.
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- Yvonne
- 02-09-23
Great listen
Another super listen with great descriptive characters relatable looking forward to next in series happy to give 5 stars
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- Hungry Mum
- 12-01-21
nice story but I found the narration distracting
although the narrator put some great emotion into her storytelling, I found there were a few things which really distracted me having just listened to the previous book in the series:
1. Her voice is quite deep and sounds older which for me meant that the key female characters sounded like they were in their 50s, not their late 20s
2. Sam, who was a key character in the last book and is a future earl, sounded at times like the kind of 60 a day east end strip club manager. it got better throughout the book but that really jarred
3. the voice of Alex went from camp British in the first book (he grew up with will and Sam) to Italian.
None of these were things to get worked up about but I found them distracting from the enjoyment of the story
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- Salama Evans
- 10-01-24
Great escape to the country
The characters kept my interest all the way through right up until the inevitable ending.
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- Mozzy89
- 25-05-23
Next chapter
Very easy listen, loved to hear what happens next the lives and love of the residents at the Hall
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