The Pearl of Penang: Winner of the 2020 Selfies Adult Fiction Prize, Clare Flynn
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The Pearl of Penang: Winner of the 2020 Selfies Adult Fiction Prize

Author: Clare Flynn

Series: The Penang Novels #1

Narrator: Victoria Riley

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Published: 07/20/2020

Genre: Fiction - Historical - World War 2

Synopsis

"Following the death of my wife, I am in need of support and companionship. I am prepared to make you an offer of marriage."

Evie Fraser, paid companion to a crotchety spinster, seems destined for a lonely life. Then out of the blue, a marriage proposal arrives by post. She met the handsome Douglas Barrington just once – at his wedding – but never forgot him. Now widowed, plantation-owner Douglas offers her a new life on the lush, exotic island of Penang. How can Evie resist?

But what are Barrington’s motives in marrying Evie when he barely knows her, and why is he so hostile and moody? 

Evie soon finds herself pitched against Douglas on the one hand and the shallow, often spiteful world of the expatriate British on the other. Has she made the biggest mistake of her life?

Flynn’s tenth novel explores love, marriage, the impact of war and the challenges of displacement – this time in a tropical paradise as the threat of the Japanese empire looms closer. 

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