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  • The Last Pearl

  • By: Leah Fleming
  • Narrated by: Anne Dover
  • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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The Last Pearl

By: Leah Fleming
Narrated by: Anne Dover
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Publisher's summary

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about one magnificent gem, and three lives bound together by fate ...

1879, York.Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds refuge as a Saturday girl for an old jeweller, Saul Abrahams, and her eye for detail, her long fingers and appreciation of beauty persuade Saul to train her as a pearl stringer. This skill will lead her through hardship and pain towards a new life.

1879, Scotland. Jem Baillie knows the immense power of a perfect pearl. His father was a fisher on a tributary of the Tay river in Perthshire, Scotland, and together they found the rarest of pearls, a great white pearl they call Queenie. When this is stolen from them, Eben vows revenge.

Spanning generations and continents, tracing the rivers of Scotland and the Mississippi, The Last Pearl is a sweeping novel of desire and revenge, of family and freedom, and of one woman's journey to open the shell she has built around herself to reveal the true beauty within.

Praise for Leah Fleming

'I enjoyed it enormously.It's a moving and compelling story about a lifetime's journey in search of the truth' RACHEL HORE
'A born storyteller' KATE ATKINSON
©2016 Leah Fleming (P)2016 Simon & Schuster Audio UK
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‘A fabulous story of people, places and pearls from a master storyteller’ (Lancashire Evening Post on The Last Pearl)

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Very interesting and sweet tale.

A very engaging and sweet tale of social climbing, friendships, love, dreams, loss and despair and the changes of the industrialisation at the end of the 1800. I really liked the narrators way of doing accents and telling the story.

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