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Songbird

By: Karen Heenan
Narrated by: Jennifer Summerfield
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Summary

She came from nothing. One false note could send her back.

Ten-year-old Bess is only good at one thing—singing, which has no place in her family's bleak existence. When her father sells her to the king of England, she balances the loss of all she's known against a world of music and plenty, and builds a new life as a royal minstrel, earning the nickname "the king's songbird."

Bess comes of age in the dangerous Tudor court, where the stakes are always high, and where politics, heartbreak, and disease threaten everyone from the king to the lowliest musician.

Her life has one constant: Tom, her first and dearest friend. But when Bess intrigues with a young Anne Boleyn and strains against the restrictions of her life in the shadows, will she discover that the biggest risk of all is listening to her own stubborn heart?

If you've ever wondered what it was like "backstairs at the palace", this richly detailed historical novel is for you.
©2019 Karen Heenan (P)2019 Authors 4 Authors Publishing
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good story ruined by American narrator and bad sound quality

enjoyed the story but it was ruined by having a American narrator reading a English tudor story. the sound quality was really poor too. hard to listen

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