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Under an English Heaven
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
When Ellie Kent moves to an English village with her new husband Graham, she fears the villagers will always see her at that young American who snared their attractive vicar during his sabbatical in California. But this challenge is nothing compared to what happens when she stumbles across a body in the churchyard.
The villagers insist they don't know the murdered man, so suspicion mounts that the killer must be the incomer - the vicar's new wife. As evidence piles up against her, Ellie tries to stay one step ahead of the police to unravel a decades-old literary mystery and love story. Will others die before she can solve it? And what will be left of her new life and marriage, even if she succeeds?
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- Alison
- 17-09-21
A Cut Above
I really enjoyed this free Audible book. It's a who-dunnit but it is a superior version, less of a pot-boiler. I thought it had a good enough plot and I enjoyed listening to it unfold.
Also, the narration was excellent. I really recommend it for non-taxing but also not mindless escapism.
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- Leslie Read
- 24-09-21
Good plot. Some niggles though.
The plot of this book is very good. However there are a few irritating niggles. Firstly as the central character has a laptop I assume that book is set recently. WWII was over 70 years ago. so the time gap is dubious. Secondly the mysterious caller could have been identified with a simple 1471 call which will attempt to identify the last calling number. Thirdly there was not a mention ogf DNA in the effort to identify the body.
Also, withholding evidence from the police is a crime in itself. So the central character should have been arrested on a number of account of this crime.
Also, Vicars are not normally addressed as Father. This is usually a Catholic title.
Also an ASBO is read as azbo not A.S.B.O.
Apart from that it's a very well thought through and enjoyable story Thanks
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- Perranmaid
- 27-09-21
Cozy mystery? For Americans?
I did enjoy this gentle mystery, which I felt was once again written with the American market in mind. If you’re British and can accept that then you’ll enjoy this book as I have…( it just gets a bit boring that there are so many books written this way)
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- Anonymous User
- 25-09-21
Obviously for an American audience
The story is interesting and the performance is good. The problem is with the writing, it sounds like an English village but it's really written for those who have never ever been to one. The Americanism is really off putting the use of words like sidewalk, trash and windshield are annoying to any English listener. But descriptions of certain items are clearly American, the one main example is we do not have green and white police vehicle's?? Not sure if the author has ever been to England? but we don't all have double barrelled surnames, never heard so many in one village.
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- Wee Chrissie B
- 27-07-22
Don’t listen if you’re British!
What a load of twaddle! This twee view of life in an English village, written with no sense of irony, is obviously written by an American and meant for the American market. The characters speak as if they’re in the 1940s yet it’s supposedly set today. The language throughout is American English, not British.
The narration is unforgivably bad, with some truly extraordinary mispronunciation. (Anthony Troe-lope… really??) Surely someone should proof the audio before it’s published?! The “English” characters’ accents are unrecognisable, which would be ok except they are inconsistent. Sometimes the vicar (we don’t call them “Father”, by the way) speaks in a Dick van Dyke-style “cockney”, other times he has a West Country “burr”, or lapses into an American accent. At times, he even speaks like Mrs Doubtfire (i.e. not English but Scottish).
I struggled as far as Chapter 3 but couldn’t bear it any longer. I gave up when the police described the murder as someone going on “a little spree” and the victim as “the old gent”.
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- Oxfordshire lady
- 22-08-21
A Heavenly Tale
A realistic view of English Country life with a not unrealistic twist in the tail
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- joanna
- 14-01-21
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There was no depth to this story it was obvious who the murderer was
I’m only sorry I wasted a credit
The narrator was excellent though but unfortunately didn’t make up for the content
Joanna
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- Maureen Frost
- 11-06-22
Narration
I am unable to continue listening, the narration is just unforgivable. I can almost ignore some errors but pronouncing Trollope as “Trolowp”is a step too far. I cannot understand why people put themselves forward for this, risking ridicule but more importantly, why doesn’t whoever vets the narrators do a better job! I always listen to the sample now, but it won’t always include mispronunciations. I have to put a star for the story, but haven’t listened to enough to provide this with any accuracy so this is most unfair to the author.
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- Jake O'Cricket
- 08-06-22
Narrator: Don't attempt English accents!
The ghastly attempts at English accents make this book unlistenable-to. It would have been better to use two narrators or just talk American all the time. Narrator hasn't even heard of Anthony Trollope, or Tre-lope as she puts it.
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- rutoap
- 06-04-22
wrong reader
I gave up on this story as so many words were pronounced wrongly. It's set in an English village with one American character so you need someone who can do various English voices, this reader can't.
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