Judithe Little has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 16 ratings. The most-rated is The Chanel Sisters.
The Chanel Sisters
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A Globe and Mail best seller! A novel of survival, love, loss, triumph - and the sisters who changed fashion forever Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they’ve grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive. The walls of the convent can’t shield them forever, and when they’re finally of age, the Chanel sisters set out together with a fierce determination to prove themselves worthy to a society that has never accepted them. Their journey propels them out of poverty and to the stylish cafés of Moulins, the dazzling performance halls of Vichy - and to a small hat shop on the rue Cambon in Paris, where a boutique business takes hold and expands to the glamorous French resort towns. But the sisters’ lives are again thrown into turmoil when World War I breaks out, forcing them to make irrevocable choices, and they’ll have to gather the courage to fashion their own places in the world, even if apart from each other. “The Chanel Sisters explores with care the timeless need for belonging, purpose, and love, and the heart’s relentless pursuit of these despite daunting odds. Beautifully told to the last page.” (Susan Meissner, best-selling author of The Last Year of the War)
©2020 Judithe Little (P)2020 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
Wickwythe Hall
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May 1940. Hitler invades France, a move that threatens all of Europe, and three lives intersect at Wickwythe Hall, an opulent estate in the English countryside - a beautiful French refugee, a take-charge American heiress, and a charming champagne vendeur with ties to Roosevelt and Churchill who isn't what he seems. There, secrets and unexpected liaisons unfold, until a shocking tragedy in a far-off Algerian port binds them forever.... Wickwythe Hall is inspired by actual people, places, and events, including Operation Catapult, a sea action in which Churchill launched a bloody attack on the French fleet to keep the powerful ships out of Hitler's reach. More than 1,000 French sailors, who just days before fought side-by-side with the British, perished. Humanizing this forgotten piece of history, Wickwythe Hall takes the listener behind the blackout curtains of upper-class England, through the bustling private quarters of Churchill's Downing Street, and along the tense back alleys of occupied Vichy, illustrating what it took to survive in the dark early days of World War II.
©2017 Judithe Little (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Die Schwestern Chanel
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Frankreich, 1897: Gabrielle Chanel - später unter dem Namen Coco weltberühmt - und ihre Schwester Antoinette werden von ihrem Vater in einem Waisenheim abgegeben. Armut und harte Arbeit bestimmen dort ihren Alltag. Doch Coco ist nicht bereit, sich in ihr Schicksal zu fügen. Unbeirrbar erobert sie sich ihre Freiheit - unter den teils bewundernden, teils neidischen Blicken ihrer Schwester. Antoinette weicht Coco bei ihrem Weg zur Modemacherin nicht von der Seite und unterstützt sie, wo sie kann. Bald schon spricht man in Paris ehrfurchtsvoll von den "Schwestern Chanel". Doch auf dem Höhepunkt des Erfolges müssen die Frauen erkennen, dass selbst Geld und Unabhängigkeit kein Ersatz für das sind, nach dem sie sich am meisten sehnen: Liebe.
©2020 HarperCollins Germany GmbH. Übersetzung von Julia Walther (P)2020 HarperCollins Germany GmbH