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  • Written by: Jennifer Robson
  • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
  • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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After the War Is Over

Written by: Jennifer Robson
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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The internationally best-selling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel - a tale of class, love, and freedom - in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed.

After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boardinghouse.

Just as Charlotte begins to settle into her new circumstances, two messages arrive that will change her life. One is from a radical young newspaper editor who offers her a chance to speak out for those who cannot. The other pulls her back to her past, and to a man she has tried, and failed, to forget.

Edward Neville-Ashford, her former employer and the brother of Charlotte's dearest friend, is now the new Earl of Cumberland - and a shadow of the man he once was. Yet under his battle wounds and haunted eyes Charlotte sees glimpses of the charming boy who long ago claimed her foolish heart. She wants to help him, but dare she risk her future for a man who can never be hers?

As Britain seethes with unrest and postwar euphoria fattens into bitter disappointment, Charlotte must confront long-held insecurities to find her true voice... and the courage to decide if the life she has created is the one she truly wants.

©2015 Jennifer Robson (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers

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Under the guise of a romance...

Jennifer Robson remains true to her love of history by weaving the realities of the end of World War I into a satisfying story format at the same time as balancing information and teachings, about the great difficulties faced by all those, victims of a world insanity, even well after its aftermath, when monies, clothing, medications, fuel and a roof over one's head had to be so carefully considered and managed in order to provide the very basics to all but the very well-to-do.

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My first audio book after loosing vision,

Very well written and read. I especially liked learning about the history of the war - post war years.

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