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Anne Boleyn
- 500 Years of Lies
- Narrated by: Hayley Nolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
A bold new analysis of one of history’s most misrepresented women.
History has lied.
Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his queen and his church in an unprecedented display of passion. Quite the tragic love story, right?
Wrong.
In this electrifying exposé, Hayley Nolan explores for the first time the full, uncensored evidence of Anne Boleyn’s life and relationship with Henry VIII, revealing the shocking suppression of a powerful woman.
So leave all notions of outdated and romanticised folklore at the door and forget what you think you know about one of the Tudors’ most notorious queens. She may have been silenced for centuries, but this urgent book ensures Anne Boleyn’s voice is being heard now.
#TheTruthWillOut
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- Ke Donn
- 12-12-19
Dreadful narration ruins what could be a good book
oh lord, I've suffered through some dreadfully narrated books but this one is unbearable. Such a shame because the concept of the book appeals greatly.
sadly returned
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- Jody
- 18-12-19
Great book Terrible narration
If you don’t know your history and haven’t studied Anne Boleyn this book is for you
It has some very good points and it’s researched well.
Sadly it’s written as if to appeal to twenty year olds with references to hashtags and the like.
Awesome.
It’s as though the author wishes to target a new audience, yet she alludes a few times in the book who the readers of this genre usually are, yet this way of writing is definitely not going to appeal to them.
It’s not as groundbreaking like the author would like you to think.
If you’re of reasonable intelligence and have knowledge of this period, what she has written is no great surprise. All she has done is provide documented accounts of what we knew to be true all along.
Yet she arrogantly believes she’s singlehandedly put to rights the story of Anne Boleyn’s death.
But to the readers new to this subject matter it definitely clears up those silly urban myths.
NOTE; If you want to purchase this book buy the paper copy or the kindle version.
It’s good to hear authors read their own work. They are the best choices to bring it to life because they know their own writing style, but in this case the author’s intonation and sarcastic points at the end of every few sentences is annoying. Think Miranda Hart.
It’s like she’s reading to a classroom of six year olds and trying to keep them interested. The points are extremely interesting already, you’re defeating the object with the silly voices.
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- Blank
- 22-01-20
a no from me, chief
didn't finish this. i found the narrator grating and the use of slang and "sass" over the top and took away from the facts that were being presented. it's a shame as the concept was really interesting.
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- LouLou
- 14-03-20
Great story ... but
The story was great but the narrator felt flippant and dismissive. Her reading seemed to cheapen the message she was trying to share particularly with the use of the phrasing ‘hashtag’. The narration was over the top and dramatic bordering on cheesy at times (particularly at the beginning).
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- Scout Sleeps Sheila Jervis
- 23-10-20
Cannot listen to this
Get a professional to read this.
I'd like a refund. This wonsn cannot and should not be allowed to do audiobooks.
AWFUL.
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- C. West
- 06-07-20
Awful
The information contained is interesting but it’s delivery is irritating and childish.....I didn’t finish the book as I couldn’t bear the sarcastic delivery! Such a shame....don’t buy it
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- Norma Miles
- 29-08-22
A 'dastardly Tudor plot'.
D.N.F.
I'm partway through chapter 9 with over four hours to go - and I just can't do it.
I am so sickened by the smug, self satisfied crowing of the author/narrator's over emphasised everything, with a sort of English version of the Valley girl delivery.It is not just the way she act out the who'revelations' about Anne and Henry as if Anne were her own personal Bestie and possibly the only woman in England with any sort of independent spirit, and she, Hayley Nolan, alone is the only person ever to have seen through everything else written about her to finally reveal the truth to an unsuspecting audience. And a large percentage of her text is taken up with telling the reader with hyperbolic enthusiasm how foolish they'd been to believe the previous historical presentation of a love story between king and lowly courtier (Anne) and how she'd entrapped him with her devious wiles, a story she was finally going to show to be lies. Um, well, I am not a Tudor period scholar, my preferred period is earlier than that, but I have read a lot about i and simply do not recognise this history which she claims to be totally prevalent - I think she must have been indulging in those media entertainment programmes she so disparaged and for which, I believe, she has researched.
Her research for this book seems most!y to have read, and used as her source material, other books about Anne by more recent historians who have updated ideas about Anne's role and motivations which precede Nolan's claim to be the first one to reveal the true nature of England's king and Anne's expectations at the time of the period !easing to the marriage. Despite her forceful claims, she is not breaking new ground.
It is true that the old style of historic writing could be dry and, sometimes, even unapproachable, but many more recent popular academic works are very different, easy to both follow and enjoy without losing integrity. Nolan's aggressively self congratulatory approach had, within the first 45 minutes, filled me with the desire to try to refute everything she said, or had me laughing at the sheer brazen idiocy of the speaker/ writer. Not that I disagreed, essentially, with most of what was said other than her grandiose claims to be the first to reveal the secrets concealed for 500 years. But I squirmed as I listened and really wanted to believe the opposite of everything she was so keen to refute.
But I'm old now. Perhaps youngsters brought up on fast paced media moments would enjoy this type of delivery, even gain information from it and seek to learn more. It might even feel exciting and make them laugh. So one star for the pre-teens and young adolescent brigade. None for adults (or 2 for pre-teens and - 1 for adults) Don't bother If looking for a more grown up biography, there are others out there far better.
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But it does come free with Kindle Unlimited
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- Clare
- 26-05-21
oh dear oh dear oh dear.
I love history and have always been fascinated, like many people, in Tudor history. driving a lot, it made sense to get the audio book. I'm lucky I did not crash my car. The narration is awful, fake accented, pretentious and sarcastic to the extreme . I will be deleting thus from my playlist as the thought of accidentally playing the remaining 9.4 hours is too painful to contemplate. I have just returned home determined to find out who the writer is and their credentials as an historian, and as a Psychologist, and who the narrator is as the writer must surely be disappointed by the delivery. Research done, credentials checked, the former clearly not having been done by the author. oh dear, oh dear oh dear.
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- AnubisFan
- 17-04-21
An incredible history emotionally delivered
It’s really emotional and gut wrenching to now know how Anne Boleyn has been misrepresented over the course of the centuries. The performance is brilliant by virtue of the fact that it is delivered by the expert, with all the emotional weight that depth of knowledge brings.
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- S. Shutler
- 09-11-20
Refreshing look at Anne Boleyn
I found this book to be a refreshing look at Anne Boleyn life and death
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