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Judith Paris
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Series: Herries Chronicles, Book 2
- Length: 23 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Newly born Judith is found in by eccentric Squire Gauntry in the chilled sombre ruin of a house on a bitter winter's night, her parents having died at her birth. With such a tenuous start, the child grows up to have an intense lust for life and curiosity for every new experience.
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- (elizabeth)ann donnelly
- 24-01-22
Hugh Walpole at his best
This second in the Herries series is no disappointment, it continues the story as left on a knife edge in Rogue Herries. The story, the writing and the performance had me on the edge of my seat listening to the story unfold and even though I ewan this so many years ago it was brought to life beautifully.