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  • Welcome Me to Willoughby Close

  • Return to Willoughby Close, Book 2
  • By: Kate Hewitt
  • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
  • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (530 ratings)
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Welcome Me to Willoughby Close

By: Kate Hewitt
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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Summary

Welcome to Willoughby Close...a charming cluster of cozy cottages, each with a story to tell and a happy ending to deliver.

Emily David didn’t want to move to Willoughby Close. She was perfectly content in London, but when her boss, Henry Trent, asks her to relocate, she’s left with little choice. Emily prefers living on her own and finds comfort in her routines. But the well-meaning residents of Wychwood-on-Lea are determined to include her in their friendly circle - a prospect Emily finds utterly alarming.

When sparks fly with local pub owner Owen Jones, Emily’s safe and fragile world threatens to shatter. She has too many secrets to keep, and Owen’s gentle understanding could be her undoing. But as Owen persists, Emily’s heart softens, and she begins to discover the wonder of trusting friends - and falling in love. That is, until she discovers Owen has a secret of his own....

Can Willoughby Close work its charm and magic once more? And can someone who has been determined to stay lonely find - and trust - love right on her doorstep?

©2020 Kate Hewitt (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

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A gentle story

A story written by an author with rose tinted spectacles about the Cotswolds. It was a lighthearted read, but the narration is awful. Maybe better to actually read the story as a physical book.

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First in the Series was better

Disappointed in this one, thought I was going to love it but didn’t because couldn’t really get a grip on the female protagonist. She certainly couldn’t play the corporate game very well. She was a total wimp.

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I Loved this Book

This was a lovely continuation of life on Willoughby Close.
A Very easy listen. yes you knew there would be a happy ending but that didn't matter. It did make me smile.
I would recommend it.

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Awful narration

That creaky American accent! Annoyingly ruined it all for me...got in 25 minutes and couldn't listen anymore!!

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Forgettable

Forgettable story and didn’t love the narration. The narrator made the male characters all sound like they were whining. Not worth paying for but OK as a free book

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It's ok

Narrator not great...predictable storyline
Not very engaging characters
Quite slow story.
Not very memorable

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An easy going story spoiled

The story of Ellie - single parent who’d left Manchester to save her geeky daughter from the bullies - as she tries to settle in a small Cotswold village and while working at Oxford University. Much against her wishes, she ends up falling for her boss, a somewhat repressed, upper class Professor who, in a Henry Higgins way, prompts her to begin finding herself and mentally separate herself from her waster ex husband.

I had hoped that I could tolerate Justine Eyre’s narration - but apart from the mispronunciation of English words (‘Mo-bill’ ‘Bacon booty’), the same voice is used for the characters in book 1 that she adopted in book 1. And therefore she implies English men are all constipated

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really enjoyed the story

story was interesting bit different from the usual romance. made you think about other people

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something to listen to

These books are easy to listen to but why use an American narrator when the books are set in England. Can't help thinking an English narrator would pronounce the words correctly

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Rather twee storyline

The narrator was awful, with silly Americanisms sprinkled through which truly annoyed me.
I won’t be listening to any other books in the series.

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