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Sylvia

By: Bryce Courtenay
Narrated by: Edwina Wren
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From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes a colorful, lusty story set in the 13th century, an epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance. The story centers around Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees. The narrative also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, and the fervor that becomes the Children's Crusade and then, later, the Crusades.
©2013 Christine Courtenay (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Ltd
Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military Crusade
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Amazing book

I leant so much in this book I may never have leant! truly reverting for start to finish. Well done.

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Issue with Audio

This was a fantastic, engaging listen, but the audio edits were sub par and really distracted from the flow of the narrative. Such a shame!

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Something different

I really enjoyed this book, can't put my finger on why but it's in sone way different to other books by Bryce yet still brilliantly well written. Perhaps the period the book is set or the narrator made the difference. I'm used to Hunphrey Bower narrating Bryce's books but this was equally as good. Nice work all, I'm going to listen again.

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Disappointing

This is the only book of Bruce Courtney’s that I haven’t enjoyed Not to say that others wouldn’t enjoy it

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Not much chop..

Compared to all of Bryce's other books this one was really hard to finish.

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It maybe blasphemous but I did not like nor finish this book

This is not BCs work I think. It’s draggy and the German accent that put me off carrying on. I chose this book because I loved in Assisi for a while and knew little of France’s so was keen to hear about him but this book failed to spark any interest in me, I persevered till it had 3 hours to go, but can not go further.,,, sadly.

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