EPISODE · Mar 17, 2011 · 5 MIN
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
from Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Krystel Feil
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dear I Wanted to Tell You Author: Louisa Young Narrator: Dan Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 17, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight. While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband’s return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises – but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dear I Wanted to Tell You Author: Louisa Young Narrator: Dan Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 17, 2011 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight. While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are married: each day Julia goes through rituals to prepare for her beloved husband’s return. Nadine and Riley, only eighteen when the war starts, and with problems of their own already, want above all to make promises – but how can they when the future is not in their hands? And Rose? Well, what did happen to the traditionally brought-up women who lost all hope of marriage, because all the young men were dead?
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