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Shadows Over Paradise

By: Isabel Wolff
Narrated by: Susan Duerden, Wanda McCaddon
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Jenni Clark is a ghostwriter. She loves to immerse herself in other people's stories--it's a respite from her own life and from a relationship that appears to be nearing its end. Jenni's latest assignment takes her to a coastal hamlet in England, where she has agreed to pen the memoir of an elderly farm owner named Klara. Jenni assumes the project will be easy: a quiet, ordinary tale of a life well lived. But Klara's story is far from quiet. She recounts the tale of a family torn apart by World War II and of disgraceful acts committed against a community in the Japanese prison camps on the Pacific island paradise of Java.

As harrowing details emerge, and stunning truths come to light, Jenni is compelled to confront a secret she's spent a lifetime burying. Weaving together the lives of two very different women, Isabel Wolff has created a captivating novel of love, loss, and hope that reaches across generations.

©2015 Isabel Wolff (P)2015 Tantor
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Well told story

I really liked the Audio readers for the story. it was a good choice to use two people to designate the two narrators. I have enjoyed several of Wolff's stories. She does tend to have a pattern to her stories you can recognize but if you like her style it works. It was really interesting to her about WW2 from a Pacific perspective (Dutch Java). It does gloss over ideas of Dutch colonialism and a countries fight for independence. But it was interesting to hear a bit about what it is like after a war ends and a world tries to put itself back together.

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Entertaining historical fiction

I enjoyed this quite a lot; it is well written, and seemed to be well researched (for the sequences in Indonesia during WWII). Both narrators were good and added to the emotional impact of the story.

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Horrendous narration

Loved the story but this was the worst audible performance! The voice of the main character is breathy with no animation. Just a monotone read with no punctuation. Stuck with because I liked this well written story.

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