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Close to Home: Romeo and Juliet meets The Dressmaker in the new family drama about acceptance and love from an award-winning romance author.
By Janet GoverNarrated by Rebecca MacauleyLength10h 2m
About this audiobook
A delightful small town story of community and family with shades of Romeo and Juliet and The Dressmaker.
Two households, both alike in dignity...
Aunt Alice Dwyer loves her small Australian town. She's rarely left its comforting embrace. She knows everyone in it; in fact, she's related to most of them. All she wants is to keep her family safe and the town running exactly the way it always has. Her way. But when an exotic French artist comes to town, her hold begins to weaken...
Lucienne Chevalier, once the toast of Europe, has come to Nyringa after a tragic loss to hang up her sequins and create a place for her circus family to rest between tours. With her is Simon, her grandson, recovering from an injury so damaging he can no longer perform. Lucienne fears he'll never embrace a new future. That is, until she notices the chemistry between him and the new schoolteacher... All they need is a push.
Both grande dames think they know what's best, but with equal amounts of stubbornness on both sides, peace looks unlikely. Then a relationship between Alice's rebellious great-niece and a teenage acrobat sets the two communities on a collision course. But when the bakery starts making patisseries over lamingtons, the battle lines are truly drawn...
A story of community and family. Of the love that brings them together ... and the fears that would tear them apart.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (269)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byRebecca Macauley
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish
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