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  • The Girl from Berlin

  • By: Kate Hewitt
  • Narrated by: Barbara Barnes
  • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (61 ratings)

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The Girl from Berlin

By: Kate Hewitt
Narrated by: Barbara Barnes
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Publisher's summary

An utterly heart-wrenching and gripping World War Two historical novel

“I want to be free,” Rosa said quietly. “Even if just for a few minutes. It might be all I have.”

Berlin, 1936: From her beautiful new home Liesel Scholz barely notices the changes to the city around her. Her life is one of privilege and safety thanks to her father’s job working for the new government.

But soon a chance encounter with Rosa, the daughter of their Jewish housekeeper, leaves Liesel in no doubt that something isn’t right. That the rules this government are making aren’t fair and that others aren’t as safe as she is. When Rosa begs Liesel to help - pressing her grandfather’s golden pocket watch into Liesel’s hand - Liesel recklessly agrees. She will help hide Rosa and her family, even if it means risking everything....

Frankfurt, 1946: An idealistic American captain, Sam Houghton, arrives in Germany to interrogate prominent Nazis on trial and to help rebuild a battered country. He hires an enigmatic and damaged woman named Anna as his interpreter. But, as sparks fly between them, the question of what Anna did in the war raises its head.

Because Anna has secrets - ones that link her to the Nazi party, the darkest days in Europe’s history, and the story of a golden pocket watch and two girls who became friends even when they were told it was impossible....

A compelling and haunting story about courage, love and betrayal set in war-torn Berlin.

©2021 Kate Hewitt (P)2021 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.
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Loved the story, embarrassed for narrator

This is a great book and I loved the story. I rarely write reviews but I had to say something about this one for one reason...if you are going to pay someone to narrate a book with some German words in it, wouldn't you make sure that person knows how to say them? At least minimally? It was MADDENING to hear the narrator say any of the German words - without even an attempt at correct pronunciation. Fortunately, I was able to cringe and carry on but with each instance, I found myself shaking my head in wonder at how that could possibly be ok with the production company.
Aside from that, the rest of the narration was ok, not the best but decent enough to keep listening. I just feel sorry for the wonderful author's story to be nearly ruined in some instances for me as a German speaker. Great, sweet story - loved the book as a whole!

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Outstanding

Beautiful story of love, true emotion and overcoming love, fear and hatred. in evil times.

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Awful narration

The story is great! I felt I could have connected more with the character, but the narrator made it awkward and difficult.

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Great story

Like story and character development. Like how story all ties together in the end. It’s really good.

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The Girl from Berlin by Kate Hewitt

Fantastic book. There is so much to know and understand the cause and effect of war. The people, especially the children. Thank-you for a good book to read or listen to.

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Very attention holding tragedy with beautiful ending.

I loved the story, the suspense & beautiful ending after so much tragedy.
The narration though was awful. Had it not been such a good story, I would’ve abandoned it after the 1st chapter. I’m not an overly particular listener either.

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good story..but romance boring

Good story.. but Sams idea of romance was totally boring!

the narrator is ok...but this book needed a female german voice..

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Love the story but hard to listen to

The narrators voice is very irritating. Maybe computerized. The story was good but I could not enjoy with the voice. I listen to several books a week and this is a first.

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