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  • When a Child Is Born

  • A Chronicles of St. Mary's Short Story
  • By: Jodi Taylor
  • Narrated by: Zara Ramm
  • Length: 32 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (3,313 ratings)

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When a Child Is Born

By: Jodi Taylor
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
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Publisher's summary

The time-travel series that everyone's talking about.... Jodi Taylor's The Chronicles of St. Mary's is back with a short story.

It's Christmas Day 1066, and a team from St Mary's is going to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror. Or so they think.... However, history seems to have different plans for them, and when Max finds herself delivering a child in a peasant's hut, she can't help wondering what history is up to.

Jodi Taylor is and always has been a history nut. Her disinclination to get out of bed for anything after 1485 can only be overcome by massive amounts of chocolate and sometimes, if it's raining, not even then.She wanted to write a book about time travel that was a little different and, not having a clue how difficult this would make her book to classify, went ahead and slung in elements of history, adventure, comedy, romance, tragedy, and anything else she could think of. Her advice to booksellers is to buy huge numbers of her books and just put one on every shelf.

©2013 Jodi Taylor (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
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Another Damn good story --LOL

What s fun little short this was!! I do so enjoy this series! Great read!

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Nice short story. Very Merry St Mary.

Short. Uncomplicated. Other than that a very typical St Mary story. Narrator is her usual energetic self.

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A Great Christmas Story

What a wonderful story for Christmas and so apropos for a cold snowy night.

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Great short story

Great short story. I wanted more. Did not end as I expected it to.

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the Perfect Christmas Tale

as she always does, Jodi tells a marvelous tale of fiction sprinkled with history. I absolutely adore St. Mary's and its crew! such a fun bunch :-)

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Really enjoyed!

The agents planning on going and attending one of the important times in history and then getting sidetracked was unexpected. It was great that they helped those in trouble without worrying to much about themselves. Then the ending made me smile and rounded out the story.

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WhenA Child Is Born

Thrown off by the UK accent at first I was impressed enough to download the next book in the series!

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SHORT story

A review requires at least 15 words?
I have to elabote on how short this book is.

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Christmas with a historical twist

Very well done. The story is interesting and heartwarming. Even though I listened to it in February, still filled me with holiday cheer. Well written and well read.

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Lite entertainment

If you could sum up When a Child Is Born in three words, what would they be?

sugar fee gum

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The interplay of the team. Omitted most of the history lessen in comparison to earlier stories

What does Zara Ramm bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Voice that perfectly suits the humor in the stories.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

some things are best left to tje imagination

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