
The Wartime Book Club
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Narrated by:
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Imogen Church
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By:
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Kate Thompson
Inspired by true events, The Wartime Book Club is an unforgettable story of everyday bravery and resistance, full of romance, drama, and camaraderie and a tribute to the joy of reading and the power of books in our darkest hour.
The Isle of Jersey was once a warm and neighborly community, but in 1943, German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule.
Nazis have ordered Grace La Mottée, the island's only librarian, to destroy books that threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, she wants to fight back. So she forms the Wartime Book Club: a lifeline, offering fearful islanders the joy and escapism of reading.
But as the occupation drags on, the women's quiet acts of bravery become more perilous–and more important–than ever before. And when tensions turn to violence, they are forced to face the true, terrible cost of resistance...
Based on astonishing real events, The Wartime Book Club is a love letter to the power of books in the darkest of times–as well as a moving work that brings to life the remarkable, untold story of an island at war.
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"A page-turning adventure, dripping with historical authenticity.”—Jenny Lecoat, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl from the Channel Islands
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While the characters' fear and anger is justified, I think Imogen Church's performance was so overly exaggerated and over-the-top dramatic, it made you want to slap the characters just to shut them up. (She also had a funky lisp which was distracting.) The performance actually detracted from the poignancy of the story, which is a shame, because as I already mentioned, the story's premise was very good and it was a moment in history that should be explored, retold and cherished.
The book follows the lives of two best friends during the Nazi occupation of Jersey and is inspired by true accounts of real people who lived on the island during those horrible years. If you can overlook the language, I would suggest reading this book rather than listening to it...
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