The Mitford Murders
Nancy Mitford and the murder of Florence Nightingale Shore
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The Mitford Murders
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Narrated by:
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Rachel Atkins
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By:
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Jessica Fellowes
About this listen
Anthony Horowitz
Lose yourself in the sumptuous first novel in a new series of Golden Age mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters.
It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle.
Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nurserymaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy - an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories.
But when a nurse - Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake - is killed on a train in broad daylight, Nancy and amateur sleuth Louisa find that in postwar England, everyone has something to hide . . .
Written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the number one-bestselling Downton Abbey books, The Mitford Murders is the perfect new obsession for fans of Daisy Goodwin, Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie - and is based on a real unsolved crime.
'True and glorious indulgence. A dazzling example of a Golden Age mystery'
Daisy Goodwin
'Oh how delicious! This terrific start to what promises to be a must-read series is exactly what we all need in these gloomy times.? Inventive, glittering, clever, ingenious. I devoured The Mitford Murders... so will you. Give it to absolutely everyone for Christmas, then pre-order the next one'
Susan Hill
'All the blissful escapism of a Sunday-night period drama in a book'
The Pool©2017 Jessica Fellowes (P)2017 Little, Brown Book Group
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Pensive
- 15-01-2020
enjoyable
A soothing cosy murder mystery. Peppered with historical details of domestic life in the 1920 England. A delightful pleasant listen, no great surprises on 'who did it' but has a few twists. I dont know why it has so many bad reviews. I will listen to the next book. The narraton was very well done.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Julie
- 07-11-2018
Loved It
I decided to listen to it because I was given, Bright Young Dead for my Birthday.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Vanessa Young
- 09-01-2018
Just dreadful
I turned this off at the eleventh minute because it uniformly awful. Every boring trope about 'what a poor girl has to do to get by' is contained in the initial minutes of Louisa's story, which seems to be a mishmash of ideas about what the author thinks poorer people had to endure post WW1. The characters are unsympathetic and the addition of Nancy Mitford is contrived and anyone who has read Mitford and biographies of the Mitford sisters will find it intolerable. I rarely return books because I think most books have some merit, even if they are not brilliant, but this is going back. I understand this is the first in a series:please, Jessica Fellowes, think again.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- KiLu
- 20-11-2018
Was it just me or did this ramble.
Got lost several times despite it being a very simple narrative because I think I became bored often. Did not enjoy the characters or their problems and knew the outcome way back in the early chapters.
I hope im not being too harsh because i did finish it although really still don’t know why I persevered
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