
Isabelle and Alexander
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Narrated by:
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Antonia Bath
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By:
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Rebecca Anderson
London, 1850.
Isabelle Rackham knows she will not marry for love. Though arranged marriages have fallen out of fashion, hers has been settled for some time to combine the upper-middle-class wealth of her father’s coal mines with Alexander Osgood’s prospering Northern country textile mills. Though not a man prone to romantic gestures, Alexander is well known as an eligible bachelor. His good looks have turned more than one head, so Isabelle is content to think of herself as Alexander’s wife.
However, her marriage is not what she expected. Northern England is nothing like her home farther west in the lake country. Cold, dreary, and dark, the soot from the textile mills creates a gray hue that seems to cling to everything in the city of Manchester. Alexander is distant and aloof, preferring to spend his time at the mill rather than with her at home. Their few conversations are brief, polite, and lacking any emotion, leaving Isabelle lonely and desperately homesick.
Sensing his wife’s unhappiness, Alexander suggests a trip to his country estate. Isabelle hopes this will be an opportunity to get to know her new husband without the distractions of his business. But the change of scenery doesn’t bring them any closer. While riding together on horses, Alexander is thrown from his and becomes paralyzed. Tragedy or destiny? The help and care that Alexander now needs is Isabelle’s opportunity to forge a connection and create a deep and romantic love where nothing else could.
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The narrator was good. She was expressive and I could hear her. So many narrators use a soft breathy voice that is annoying so thank you.
I recommend this to anyone who wants to feel good after listening.
The Will to Recover and Love
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To be honest, this wasn’t a perfect book for me but it hit my desire for an enjoyable historical romance. The building of Isabelle and Alexander’s relationship was nicely done. We got to see Alexander’s servants and friends root and bolstering of the romance and support of their individual bosses. It would have been nice to see more of Isabelle’s family and friends support her. She faced hardships and started a new phase in her life basically alone. It would have been nice to see a mature development between Isabelle and her family. Her relationships between her parents and her have always been distant it seems and i guess it’s okay that they’ll remain so. Her deep loving friendship with her cousin seemed to cool as she matured though. I wish it could have developed more. Instead they both seemed to separate and become more dependent on their romances. Luckily I loved seeing Isabelle and Alexander falling in love but didn’t see any reason to care about Edwin and his bride.
The audio was a little off with pauses but they were easy to look past. Definitely think the ebook was the better choice but feel the audio made for a nice experience.
Hit the Spot for a Historical Romance
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Warm and Original
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Unexpressed love.
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Great listen!
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Beautiful Story
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Great Premise
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On to the story
He was very much a workaholic with a somewhat of an inferiority complex and somewhat stunted emotionally. They weren't a good match. She didn't understand his love of for his mill and he didn't understand why she wasn't proud of the mill. They were both very immature in that they had no idea how to talk across class lines. She was unhappy and he didn't understand why. she wouldn't tell him because she thought he should be trying harder to make her happy. They had no common ground to start from.
Just as things are starting to come together he has a terrible accident. How they work this out is the story. They turn inward to deal with this crisis But much of the story is what you bring and know about heartache and over coming adversity. Marriages are long and have horrible things intersperse thought out so knowing that helps bring it together more. They do love each other but they don't notice because they are looking inward instead of outward.
I liked how immature she started and her growth and development. I liked how the love came so slowly and how she kept looking to swept up and had to put that away.
It's good and deep enough to distract .
Mature and clean
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EXCELLENT!
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The fact it was different made me stay.
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