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Zelda's Cut
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret.
But if the public don’t want careful moral fables any longer, why not provide an outrageous tale of sex and satanism, and an author to match? The incomparable, uncontrollable Zelda de Vere is born.
What began with the best of intentions snowballs into a disorienting blur of passion, gender-bending, loss of innocence, to betrayal and beyond. Isobel Latimer might feel she’s on the brink of losing everything, but what would Zelda do?
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-06-24
Meh
I usually love Philippa G books but this one didn’t really hit the spot.
I found the story as a whole irritating and the ending depressing.
The narration was done well - but the accents were so RP it was too much for me.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-24
The worst book by Philippa Gregory
According to my taste, this is the worst book by Philippa Gregory that I've ever "read". I have to add that she is my all time favourite author and I almost exclusively read historical fiction. If not, I read fact books.
So if you're not that particular in what you read, you might like it. But if you want to listen to it cuss you like her other books and becouse it's labeled as historical fiction, I would tell you not to buy it. Unless you count the 90's as being historical. I have read "the little house" (I think it's called) by the same author that is similarly labelled as historical fiction but to me are not. But I didn't mind that one due to that the story spoke to me due to personal experiences.
Being a queer woman I thought this book would be interesting even though I kinda realised it wasn't historical. But on the contrary it offended me. I would put a BIG warning out there to anyone who's transexual due to really offensive wording at the end. I know it's the thoughts of the character and not the author. Butt it just made me think that the motives and thoughts of the character who was thought of thus, by the main character, was not investigated and included. Even though this caracter's thoughts and feelings had been described earlier in the book. I also think that it was pretty obvious what was going to happen in the end pretty early on in the book and even though some things I didn't guess on, the main conclusion was easy to figure out.
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- E. Morse
- 08-05-24
No words for this!
I really loved this book. And I wish that I was good with words so as to give the book the credit it deserves.
I've read quite a lot of Phillipa Gregory's historical novels. Zelda's Cut was a real surprise.
The insight into the mind of a writer and the accompanying personal details that come with dreams and relationships that we all individually encounter in Life are richly illustrated.
My only uncertainty is the ending.
Her resolution seemed to be rather shallow.
Could she really simply accept that Life style?
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