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Like a Flower in Bloom
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's Summary
For years Charlotte Withersby has worked as an assistant to her father, an eminent English botanist. As she approaches the old age of twenty-four, her father pushes her out into society, swayed by an uncle who believes God's only two roles for women are marriage and motherhood. When one of the Withersbys' colonial correspondents, Edward Trimble, returns to England, he's drafted as the new assistant so Charlotte is free to marry. This suits Edward's plans quite well, since the last thing he wants to do is reunite with the family he is ashamed to call his own. Though Edward proves himself vexingly capable on the job, Charlotte won't surrender it without a fight and schemes with her best friend to regain her position. Perhaps if a proposal seems imminent, Charlotte's father will see his error and ask her to return.
Charlotte tries to make headway in her town's social life but reveals herself to be unaware of all the intricacies of polite society. Though Edward pitches in, tutoring her in society's expectations, she just seems to make things worse. And the more she comes to know of her father's assistant, the more trouble she has imagining life without him. Caught in a trap of her own making and seeing the hopelessness of her prospects, will Charlotte get to keep her work, or will she have to cede her heart?
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- Proffitt's
- 03-03-2022
A no-go for people with sound sensitivities.
If you have hyperacusis to high frequencies or have sensitivities to vocal sibilance, please don't listen to this narrator. Not sure if it is her voice or poor recording quality but unfortunately there is an ear piercing high frequency hiss in all her 's' sounds.
Even though I was extremely enjoying the story, I had to stop because my ears were aching too much. I will be requesting a refund and hope one day it gets re-recorded.
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