Review: 3 great new audiobooks for your Thanksgiving drive
Quinn’s debut novel is an enticing concoction of surefire ingredients: resourceful, determined girls growing into strong, independent women; a heartless, self-involved stepmother; artists and their scandalous domestic arrangements; the decline of England’s landed estates; the Second World War and French Resistance; wartime heroics; love, friendship and a whale.
She doesn’t “do” voices so much as invest each character with a tone and cadence appropriate to his or her personality. Manning reads her own memoir, a methodical account of the circumstances that culminated in her 2010 decision to leak thousands of military documents on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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