narrator sounded bored

Dreadful narration. Slow and boring. I read a lot of Jilly Cooper before losing my eyesight, so I was looking forward to this. The narrator completely ruined it.

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Truly boring

Thank goodness her writing improved somewhat as this book is quite awful and the narrator even worse.

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Terrible narration

It sounded like it was being read out by a 12-year-old.
Jilly Cooper deserves better.

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WOW!

I found the story so engaging with twists and turns the narrators voice is so soothing to listen to. All of Jilly Cooper books are outstanding such as Emily,Harriet,Octavia,bella,Imogen and so many more overall strongly recommend to people who love romances with plot twists!

A great book ruined by terrible narration

I love these old Jilly Cooper books, which I have read repeatedly over the years. The narration on this is terrible - incorrect pronunciation, misread text, and mainly terrible accents. You’d honestly think the narrator was reading the book for the first time, and making a hash of it even if that were the scenario. Honestly, buy the book and read it yourself - the terrible narrator will put you off the story for life otherwise.

Hasn’t kept pace with the times

I first read this series and this book in the 80s when I was probably an impressionable teenager. Even then though, I knew this book was fundamentally not what I liked or expected from what was billed as light, frothy romance.
Returning to it after a gap of 30+ years only serves to underline what a distasteful, seedy, tawdry and unpleasant book this is. Thankfully, society has moved on from any situation when rape is acceptable or uncommented on and I’m thankful for it. Also, coercive, bullying men who are overburdened with unpleasant machismo no longer make partners or role models to aspire to.
The book leaves a nasty taste behind which isn’t helped by poor performance. Frivolous pronounced ‘friv-you-lous’;
cavalcade as ‘calvacade’ and
wander pronounced ‘wonder’ all the way through. Additionally,
Scottish accents wandering towards Northern Irish throughout. Save your time and spend it in almost any other way NOT reading/listening to this book.

Good

These were my favourite books in my teens . Audible book was ok although sometimes the accents tended to change from time to time .

Jilly Cooper Emily

Always loved this story spoilt by the stupid accents , Rory's voice totally destroyed any idea of him being a hunk and let's not go there with Finns voice 😞

Absolutely awful

I will never listen to a book narrated by Rebecca Cortney again. Her delivery was bland, monotonous and she made all the characters seem snooty and obnoxious. When I read Emily many moons again Emily was young, hopeful, naive and ditsy. In the audio book she was a totally different character thanks to the narrators delivery. She was spoilt, unlikeable and one dimensional. The whole plot is silly and inconsequential as all JC stories are but what charm the story had was spoilt for me by the narrator.

What a shame

Would not recommend this book. Pauses between chapters far too long. Story line poor. If this is the future of Jilly cooper I shall not be listening ,!,