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Last Friends
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance61
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Story61
Shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize. Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife, Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in love.
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Wonderful trilogy beautifully read
- By Pivotell Ltd on 03-01-22
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Last Friends
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Series: Old Filth, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-06-15
- Language: English
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At the Reunion Buffet
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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Story11
Isabel Dalhousie - philosopher, mother and friend - is taking on the mammoth task of hosting her school reunion. In the hours before 25 former classmates descend on her home and the caterers arrive to set up a buffet, Isabel has time to reflect. She is mindful of the fact that reunions can bring up all sorts of uncomfortable feelings. Later that night, with the party in full swing, Isabel realises that the pull of the past remains as strong as ever.
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At the Reunion Buffet
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 10.5
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-06-15
- Language: English
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別れる理由5 P+D BOOKS
- (小学館)
- Narrated by: 井上 智博
- Series: 別れる理由, Book 5
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-07-26
- Language: Japanese
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The Life and Loves of a She Devil
- By: Fay Weldon
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Story17
Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact - simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge.
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Darkly delicious
- By Mrs C Chambers on 03-05-20
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The Life and Loves of a She Devil
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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A Time of Love and Tartan
- 44 Scotland Street, Book 12
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall140
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Performance128
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Story127
If only Pat Macgregor had an inkling of the embarrassment - romantic, professional, even aesthetic - that flowed from accepting narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce Anderson's invitation for coffee, she would never have said yes. And if only Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, hadn't wandered into his local bookshop and picked up a particular book at a particular time, he would never have knocked over his former English teacher or attracted the attentions of the police.
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continuation of character stories
- By Amazon Customer on 27-07-25
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A Time of Love and Tartan
- 44 Scotland Street, Book 12
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: 44 Scotland Street, Book 12
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 08-11-17
- Language: English
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Lullaby
- By: Leïla Slimani, Sam Taylor
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall316
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Performance280
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Story282
When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris' upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties.
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So many inaccuracies
- By Maggie Kiely on 27-07-18
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Lullaby
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-07-18
- Language: English
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A Dubious Legacy
- By: Mary Wesley
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance39
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Story39
Henry Tillotson, a generous, genial man, rescues Margaret from a disastrous marriage in Egypt and brings her home to the West Country as his new wife. On the threshold she gives him a black eye and retires straight to bed where she remains, apart from the occasional malevolent outburst, for the rest of her life.
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Absultely dreadful hung in there for ten chapters
- By Christine on 22-08-14
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A Dubious Legacy
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-02-12
- Language: English
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Best Kept Secret: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- The Gripping And Pulse-Pounding Novel From International Bestselling Author Jeffrey Archer
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,007
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Performance1,772
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Story1,775
Captivating and suspenseful, Best Kept Secret is the third novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s outstanding Clifton Chronicles. It sees our hero Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington, brother of Harry’s beloved wife Emma, become entwined in the fate of the Barrington family...
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Oh No!!!!!
- By mollyeyre on 17-03-13
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Best Kept Secret: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- The Gripping And Pulse-Pounding Novel From International Bestselling Author Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Series: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-03-13
- Language: English
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Perfect
- From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- By: Rachel Joyce
- Narrated by: Paul Rhys
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall249
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Performance221
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Story220
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain...
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There's always one (bad review)...
- By Lukasz Kniola on 28-08-13
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A Bright Ray of Darkness
- By: Ethan Hawke
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance78
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Story77
A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter to the world of theatre, A Bright Ray of Darkness showcases Ethan Hawke's gifts as a novelist as never before.
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A beautiful, outstanding novel
- By Amazon Customer on 08-02-21
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A Bright Ray of Darkness
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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Once More with Feeling
- A Novel
- By: Ceridwen Dovey
- Narrated by: Jason Chong
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance99
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Story99
Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis. His beloved, dying wife of over 60 years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenaged grandson wants to cook desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine retirement home. Then Arthur meets the gorgeous, radical, 80-something-year-old Robbie and learns that nobody is ever too old to fall in love all over again.
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Precious and beautiful
- By Sigrin on 26-05-23
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Once More with Feeling
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jason Chong
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-05-20
- Language: English
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A Cornish Affair
- By: Liz Fenwick
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall219
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Performance198
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Story199
Running out on your wedding day never goes down well. When the pressure of her forthcoming marriage becomes too much, Jude bolts from the church, leaving a good man at the altar, her mother in a fury, and the guests with enough gossip to last a year. Guilty and ashamed, Jude flees to Pengarrock, a crumbling cliff-top mansion in Cornwall, where she takes a job cataloguing the Trevillion family's extensive library.
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Really good story
- By Sue Bradley on 27-02-15
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A Cornish Affair
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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City of Bohane
- By: Kevin Barry
- Narrated by: Kevin Barry
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance127
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Story127
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives.
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Impressive Debut
- By YA on 16-02-15
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City of Bohane
- Narrated by: Kevin Barry
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-12-13
- Language: English
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Paris Stories
- By: Mavis Gallant
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance7
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Story7
Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.
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Flawless writing, performance ok
- By Mariachi on 14-10-13
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Paris Stories
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-11-06
- Language: English
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The Dreamers
- By: Karen Thompson Walker
- Narrated by: Erin Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance33
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Story33
‘Riveting, profoundly moving’ Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven ‘Beautiful and devastating’ Red ‘Thought-provoking and profound’ Cosmopolitan Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months… She sleeps through sunrise. She sleeps through...
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Beautifully written
- By M.M on 27-08-25
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The Dreamers
- Narrated by: Erin Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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I Wanna Be Loved By You
- Marilyn Monroe, A Life in 100 Takes
- By: Andrew Wilson
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon. Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, Andrew Wilson’s biography of Marilyn Monroe presents the actress in a startling new light. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, she had an uncertain and unforgiving upbringing. She grew up in Los Angeles and would dream about...
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I Wanna Be Loved By You
- Marilyn Monroe, A Life in 100 Takes
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 26-02-26
- Language: English
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Lucky Day
- By: Beth Morrey
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
After a morning that starts with a terrible migraine, an accidentally strong concoction of painkillers, and a bump on the head, Clover Hendry is not quite herself. And as she walks out of work at 9.47am, for once Clover isn’t worrying about the consequences. For once, she’s going to live for herself. . . if only for a day. Full of a joyful recklessness, Clover Hendry is taking the day off. But will her new-found freedom uncover long-buried secrets?
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Dreadful
- By Mary Evans on 18-03-25
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Lucky Day
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Vernon Subutex One
- English Edition
- By: Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne - translator
- Narrated by: Chris Harper
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance32
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Story32
Who is Vernon Subutex? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself down and out on the Paris streets. He has one final card up his sleeve.
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fantastic Journey
- By Anonymous on 06-04-26
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Vernon Subutex One
- English Edition
- Narrated by: Chris Harper
- Series: Vernon Subutex [English Edition], Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-06-19
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance36
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Story37
The continuing adventures from Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and curious observer of the behaviour of her fellow man.
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Wrong voice
- By Karen on 17-07-12
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 8
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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The Wedding
- By: Nicholas Sparks
- Narrated by: Tom Wopat
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance57
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Story57
After 30 years of marriage, Wilson is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun (originally recounted in The Notebook), and their 50-year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. With his daughter about to marry and his wife thinking about leaving him, Wilson knows it is time to act. He will do anything he can to save his marriage.
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Fantastic, can never guess the ending
- By MR B WEBSTER on 29-03-22
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The Wedding
- Narrated by: Tom Wopat
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-01-19
- Language: English
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