
The Peacock Emporium
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Elizabeth Sastre
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Christine Rendel
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Fabio Tassone
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By:
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Jojo Moyes
About this listen
An early work from the New York Times best-selling author of The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes, the story of a young woman who opens an eclectic shop and comes to terms with the secrets of her past.
In the '60s, Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was also beautiful, spoiled, and out of control. When she agreed to marry the gorgeous young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme, her parents breathed a sigh of relief. But within two years, rumors had begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman.
Thirty-five years later, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her notorious mother's legacy. The only place Suzanna finds comfort is in The Peacock Emporium, the beautiful coffee bar and shop she opens that soon enchants her little town. There, she makes perhaps the first real friends of her life, including Alejandro, a male midwife, escaping his own ghosts in Argentina.The specter of her mother still haunts Suzanna. But only by confronting both her family and her innermost self will she finally reckon with the past - and discover that the key to her history, and her happiness, may have been in front of her all along.
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When the Harrington family discovers an abandoned baby deep in the woods, they decide to keep her a secret and raise her as their own. But within days a body is found in the grounds of their house and their perfect new family implodes. Years later, Sylvie, seeking answers to nagging questions about her life, is drawn into the wild beautiful woods where nothing is quite what it seems. Will she unearth the truth? And dare she reveal it?
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Boring story, monotone narration
- By Marie Case on 12-28-20
By: Eve Chase
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Milady
- By: Laura L. Sullivan
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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I’ve gone by many names, though you most likely know me as Milady de Winter: Villainess. Seductress. A secondary player in someone else’s tale. It’s finally time I tell my own story. The truth isn’t tidy or convenient, but it’s certainly more interesting. Before you cast judgment, let me start at the beginning, and you shall learn how an innocent girl from the countryside became the most feared woman in all of Europe.
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Made me rethink The Three Musketeers
- By DR on 04-25-24
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The Spies of Shilling Lane
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Ryan
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets off hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left - her clever daughter, Betty, who took work there at the first rumbles of war. But when she arrives, Betty’s landlord, the timid Mr. Norris, informs her that Betty hasn’t been home in days - with the chaos of the bombs, there’s no telling what might have befallen her.
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Loved It!!
- By Jomo on 06-20-19
By: Jennifer Ryan
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The Favorite Daughter
- By: Patti Callahan Henry
- Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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On her wedding day 10 years ago, Lena Donohue experienced a betrayal so painful that she fled the small town of Watersend, South Carolina, and reinvented herself in New York City. Though now a freelance travel writer, the one place she rarely goes is home - until she learns of her dad's failing health. Returning to Watersend means seeing the sister she has avoided for a decade and the brother who runs their family's Irish pub - and who has borne the burden of his sisters' rift.
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Read...DO NOT listen
- By Vicki M on 09-07-19
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The Stolen Lady
- A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa
- By: Laura Morelli
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Caroline Hewitt, Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by 500 years, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa - with unintended consequences.
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hard to finish
- By jeannetteW on 01-05-22
By: Laura Morelli
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The Bookshop Ladies
- By: Faith Hogan
- Narrated by: Flora Montgomery
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman called Robyn Tessier in Ballycove, a small town on the west coast of Ireland, but she is determined to find out. She arrives in Ballycove to find that Robyn runs a rather chaotic and unprofitable bookshop. She is shy, suffering from unrequited love for dashing Kian, and badly in need of advice on how to make the bookshop successful.
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What matters most
- By Adrienne Bartlett on 08-06-24
By: Faith Hogan
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We Must Be Brave
- By: Frances Liardet
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Juliet Mills
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
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December 1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, England, the city's residents flee to the surrounding villages. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly married Ellen Parr finds a girl asleep, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. Little Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone. Ellen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home, the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she and her husband, Selwyn, had dreamed for themselves. As the war rages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising them all.
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Nasty reviews, why? Beautiful book.
- By Kelly on 11-27-19
By: Frances Liardet
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The Perfect Wife
- A Novel
- By: JP Delaney
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Graham Halstead, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He’s a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss. But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins to question her husband’s motives - and his version of events.
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Really fun read!
- By Sandra Crews on 08-13-19
By: JP Delaney
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The Song of Sourwood Mountain
- By: Ann H. Gabhart
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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Though the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean’s hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher—until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in Eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him. Just like that.
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Inspiring/Moving
- By Kathy on 10-17-24
By: Ann H. Gabhart
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Courage, My Love
- By: Kristin Beck
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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When the Nazi occupation of Rome begins, two courageous young women are plunged deep into the Italian Resistance to fight for their freedom in this captivating debut novel.
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If this is ms. Becks debut novel then she should have a very successful career
- By paula wright on 07-07-21
By: Kristin Beck
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Mistress of the Ritz
- A Novel
- By: Melanie Benjamin
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Nothing bad can happen at the Ritz; inside its gilded walls, every woman looks beautiful, every man appears witty. Favored guests walk through its famous doors to be welcomed and pampered by Blanche Auzello and her husband, Claude, the hotel’s director. Until June 1940, when the German army sweeps into Paris, setting up headquarters at the Ritz. Suddenly, with the likes of Hermann Goëring moving into suites once occupied by royalty, Blanche and Claude must navigate a terrifying new reality. One that entails even more secrets.
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2nd half was good
- By Amazon Customer on 07-05-19
By: Melanie Benjamin
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Mr. Nobody
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Steadman
- Narrated by: Catherine Steadman
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him?
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Along for the ride
- By LW09 on 01-14-20
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The Irish Princess
- A Novel
- By: Karen Harper
- Narrated by: Ana Clements
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth "Gera" Fitz Gerald had a privileged life in her youth in Ireland, daughter of the FitzGerald Dynasty. Her privileged world is overturned when her father, the ninth earl of Kildare, is imprisoned in the Tower of London by King Henry VIII and her family is destroyed by corruption charges and scandal. Torn from her island home and the rest of her family spread out across Europe, Elizabeth has no choice but to accept a place in England's glittering court.
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A bit disappointing
- By Donna K on 06-02-24
By: Karen Harper
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- Ron B
- 12-08-21
Always enjoy Jojo
Well done except one thing . I think I missed the connection between chapter 1 and the ending ? It is still well done and entertaining and the characters are always fully developed.
The narrators were really excellent and provided an enjoyable listening experience.
Jojo fans will not be disappointed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-21-23
Loved this!
I could not stop listening. I cried, laughed, wondered, and exalted. I wanted to be a character in this book!
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- Kerr506
- 06-22-19
Not quite annoying enough to return
I really enjoyed the first half of the book but then it headed south and fell off the rails with a dumb ending. Such an unpleasant lead character. She opens the Peacock Emporium. Will it make her happy? What would make her happy? Do we care?
What about the under-utilized interesting character--the male midwife from Argentina! Why didn't we learn more about him? So many family secrets but why were they secret? The big "reveals" are underwhelming.
Aspects of the story held my interest, but overall this book is a big disappointment.
However if I had really hated it, I would have returned it.
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- Teri Henry
- 10-19-20
Love the author and love the book!
I listened to this book because I loved The Giver of Stars. Although it starts slow, I was so glad I stuck with it! 😊
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- Diane
- 10-01-20
The Peacock Emporium
Jojo Moyes NEVER fails to disappoint!! Being a woman my self, I love how she flushes out their personalities, their character and their struggles no matter the time frame. She does it very elegantly in this book. I will keep it in my library. It’s worthy of a second read...
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- lgrimes
- 06-06-23
Always a joy
I found this book to have just enough twists and turns to hold my interest and just enough raw emotion to keep me laughing and crying until the very last word.
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- Laurie Byrne
- 12-29-23
The whining of upper class
Although the main character was quite hard to like, several of the secondary characters were delightful
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- Chickiegal
- 08-15-19
great storytelling
Lovely escape I had with this book! Jojo Moyes is a master at creating characters and keeping the suspense going. With this one she didn't disappoint. I looked forward to my walks with The Peacock Emporium. Thumbs up!
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- C. S. DeMore
- 12-07-20
Hard to Follow
I still haven't figured this one out. Although many questions were answered towards the end, not the main one that would have tied the opening to the rest of the story. Very frustrating as l don't have time to listen to it all again.
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- C. J. Kromminga
- 05-07-23
Not the best
I've read several of this authors books and loved them. This one needed editing and focus. Too much melodrama, too much Jane Austen, too much soap opera, too many stories going off the rails. Why did I read the whole thing? Plot twists are surprising!
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