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This Terrible Beauty

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This Terrible Beauty

By: Katrin Schumann
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
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From the bestselling author of The Forgotten Hours comes an unforgettable story of one woman’s journey to reclaim what she lost in a country torn apart by the devastating legacy of WWII.

On the windswept shores of an East German island, Bettina Heilstrom struggles to build a life from the ashes. World War II has ended, and her country is torn apart. Longing for a family, she marries Werner, an older bureaucrat who adores her. But after joining the fledgling secret police, he is drawn deep into its dark mission and becomes a dangerous man.

When Bettina falls in love with an idealistic young renegade, Werner discovers her infidelity and forces her to make a terrible choice: spend her life in prison or leave her home forever. Either way she loses both her lover and child.

Ten years later, Bettina has reinvented herself as a celebrated photographer in Chicago, but she’s never stopped yearning for the baby she left behind. Surprised by an unexpected visitor from her past, she resolves to return to her ravaged homeland to reclaim her daughter and uncover her beloved’s fate, whatever the cost.

©2020 Katrin Schumann (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
20th Century Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction

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The audio sounds so robotic.

I’m usually a big fan of audio because I find the voices and accents fun and they give the characters meaning.
The actually book I recommend but I could not listen to this being read by audio.
Such a shame

Terrible on audio

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