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Christmas at the Edge of the World
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
When Laurel West discovers her estranged sister Abby has checked herself into rehab and wants her to take care of her 14-year-old son, she doesn’t hesitate to step in. Abby was there for Laurel a long time ago, and she longs to be able to offer the same. However, as a single woman who still dreams of the fairy tale, Laurel isn’t prepared for teenage Zac’s sullen moods or silent rage. When he’s expelled from school, she decides to take drastic measures and temporarily relocate them to her great aunt’s cottage on the windswept hills of the Orkney islands north of Scotland...about as far as she can run from their problems, but will it be far enough?
From the moment they step onto the island’s shores, everything seems to go wrong...including a run-in with eccentric sheep farmer Archie MacDougall. When Zac gets in trouble at the village pub and is rescued by Archie, Laurel thinks things are only getting worse. But Archie’s suggestion of putting Zac to work on his farm might be the change he needs, and Laurel strikes up a surprising friendship with a man who is about as far from the fairy tale as she can imagine.
Can such an unlikely and impractical love bloom in such a brief moment out of reality? And will two lost and lonely souls find each other at the edge of the world?
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-12-21
Odd narration, lovely story
Nice winter read, Narrator let it down. Surprised this was signed off. Is a real shame as its a really nice story.
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- Dopeydora
- 02-01-22
Story ok.
Sadly this was let down by the reader. He voice was so boring and I struggled listening to her.
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- Theaveragereviewer
- 04-04-22
What can I say?
If you can put up with the awful way this is read then you will enjoy the story - ideal to listen while doing housework so you can get 'narrator frustration' under control 🤨
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- Betty Bookworm
- 08-12-22
heart warming romantic Christmas tale
such a lovely Christmas story, just right for Christmas for a feel good feeling
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- samj
- 08-01-23
Speed up the narration!
Like others, I struggled with the narration initially, so thank you to the review from Sally who suggested speeding it up. 1.5 worked for me as the drawl and falling cadence on almost every phrase was less pronounced.
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- Petra Rezacova
- 05-01-23
Lovely story but
The narration was just not for me and rather off putting but the story is really lovely
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- Anonymous User
- 26-12-22
Delightful
Lovely, heartfelt story. Perhaps because it’s Christmas, it made me cry a number of times. The narrator, once speeded up, is charming and appropriate for the novel.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-12-23
Good story, but the narration not so great!
3,5🌟 I want to go to Orkney and stay in that cottage by the sea.
It started slow and sad but it got better eventually, but the romance felt almost like an after thought, and the mending of the family relationship ( that had been broken so long ago) was the main reason for the story.
Unfortunately, despite liking her voice, the narration wasn’t quite right for this book, it was away too slow and sleep inducing. I normally listen to audiobooks at 1.7x or 2x speed, but this was soooooo very slow I went up to 2,5x and didn’t feel like too much. What a shame because the narrator’s voice is nice but I think the way it was delivered wasn’t quite right here.
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- Caz B
- 07-01-24
Ok but spoilt the narrator
Story was ok if a little wet, but nearly gave up listening due to the narrator. Dreadful!!!
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- ejenna
- 26-11-21
horrendous narrator
probably a good story but the narrator is awful so not listening and removing download!
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