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The Emerald Affair
- The Raj Hotel, Book 1
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
In this evocative tale of life in India between the wars, friendships will be tested and loyalties torn. But can love win the day?
In Scotland in the aftermath of the First World War, nurse Esmie McBride meets handsome Captain Tom Lomax at her best friend Lydia’s home. Esmie is at first concerned for Tom’s shell shock, then captivated by his charm, but it’s effervescent Lydia he marries, and the pair begin a new adventure together in India.
When marriage to Tom’s doctor friend Harold offers Esmie the chance to work in India, the two sets of newlyweds find themselves living wildly different lives on the subcontinent. Esmie, heartbroken but resolved, is nursing at a mission hospital on the North West Frontier. Lydia, meanwhile, is the glamorous mistress of the Raj Hotel, where Tom hopes his sociable new wife will dazzle international guests.
As Esmie struggles with her true feelings for Tom and the daily dangers of her work, Lydia realises the Raj is not the centre of high society she had dreamed of. And when crisis strikes both couples, Esmie faces a shattering choice: should she stay the constant friend she’s always been, or risk everything and follow her heart?
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- Carol
- 28-03-23
Good story but Irritating narrator
Good story but would have benefited from a deeper voiced narrator who wasn’t so breathy. Rather diminished the depth and flow of the story. I had to imagine someone else reading so I could get to the end.
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- Susan Sellers
- 24-05-21
Strange phrasing from the narrator
A lovely book capturing the period and setting. The narrator has a pleasant voice BUT has a very bizarre habit of using strange phrasing, false hesitation and emphasis at the end of a perfectly ordinary sentence. - presumably to create atmosphere and pace. It is most irritating.
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- Gamron
- 14-02-21
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I've heard good reviews about the story, however, I had to stop listening after the first chapter because the reader was so annoying.
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- almypal
- 02-02-20
narrator spoils story
Good story. Unfortunately the narrator lets it down. If there are different characters in a book there should be different voices.
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