EPISODE · Apr 18, 2023 · 3 MIN
Mummy Darlings: A Glorious Guinness Girls Novel by Emily Hourican
from Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Dianna Christiansen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mummy Darlings: A Glorious Guinness Girls Novel Author: Emily Hourican Narrator: Roisin Rankin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This stunning novel the from author of The Glorious Guinness Girls follows the three enigmatic Guinness sisters as they take on married life and motherhood at the beginning of the 1930s. It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland, and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London. But while Britain becomes increasingly politically polarized, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh discover conflict within their own marriages. Oonagh's dream of romantic love is countered by her husband's lies; the intense nature of Maureen's marriage means passion, but also rows; while Aileen begins to discover that, for her, being married offers far less than she had expected. Meanwhile, Kathleen, a housemaid from their childhood home in Glenmaroon, travels between the three sisters, helping, listening, watching--even as her own life brings her into conflict with the clash between fascism and communism. As affairs are uncovered and secrets exposed, the three women begin to realize that their guiled upbringing could not have prepared them for the realities of married life, nor for the scandals that seem to follow them around.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mummy Darlings: A Glorious Guinness Girls Novel Author: Emily Hourican Narrator: Roisin Rankin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: This stunning novel the from author of The Glorious Guinness Girls follows the three enigmatic Guinness sisters as they take on married life and motherhood at the beginning of the 1930s. It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland, and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London. But while Britain becomes increasingly politically polarized, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh discover conflict within their own marriages. Oonagh's dream of romantic love is countered by her husband's lies; the intense nature of Maureen's marriage means passion, but also rows; while Aileen begins to discover that, for her, being married offers far less than she had expected. Meanwhile, Kathleen, a housemaid from their childhood home in Glenmaroon, travels between the three sisters, helping, listening, watching--even as her own life brings her into conflict with the clash between fascism and communism. As affairs are uncovered and secrets exposed, the three women begin to realize that their guiled upbringing could not have prepared them for the realities of married life, nor for the scandals that seem to follow them around.
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