Abdication Lib/E
Juliet Nicolson
(Author)
Carole Boyd
(Read by)
Description
England, 1936. The year began with the death of a beloved king and the ascension of a charismatic young monarch, sympathetic to the needs of the working class, glamorous, and single. By year's end, the world would be stunned as it witnessed that new leader give up his throne in the name of love, just as the unrest and violence that would result in a second World War were becoming impossible to ignore. In pitch-perfect prose, Juliet Nicolson has captured an era in which duty and pleasure, tradition and novelty, and order and chaos all battled for supremacy in the hearts and minds of king and commoner alike. As addictive as Downton Abbey, Abdication is a breathtaking story inspired by a love affair that shook the world.
Product Details
Price
$74.95
$69.70
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publish Date
September 01, 2012
Dimensions
7.1 X 1.6 X 6.2 inches | 0.95 pounds
Language
English
Type
Compact Disc
EAN/UPC
9780792791652
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Juliet Nicolson is the author of The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm and The Great Silence: Britain From the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age. She has two daughters and lives with her husband in Sussex, England.
Carole Boyd's theater work includes a year performing with Alan Ayckbourn's Scarborough Company where she created the role of June in Way Upstream, while her television credits include Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Mystery!: Campion. Boyd also plays the notorious Lynda Snell in The Archers, is a regular reader on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please, and has won three audiobook awards for her recordings.