The English Girl
Written by Katherine Webb
Narrated by Anna Bentinck
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Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled a lifelong dream to visit Arabia by travelling from England to the ancient city of Muscat with her fiancé, Rory. Desperate to escape the pain of a personal tragedy, she longs to explore the desert fort of Jabrin, and unearth the treasures it is said to conceal.
But Oman is a land lost in time - hard, secretive, and in the midst of a violent upheaval - and gaining permission to explore Jabrin could prove impossible. Joan's disappointment is only alleviated by the thrill of meeting her childhood heroine, pioneering explorer Maude Vickery, and hearing first-hand the stories that captured her imagination and fuelled her ambition as a child.
Joan's encounter with the extraordinary and reclusive Maude will change everything. Both women have things that they want, and secrets they must keep. As their friendship grows, Joan is seduced by Maude's stories, and the thrill of the adventure they hold, and only too late does she begin to question her actions - actions that will spark a wild, and potentially disastrous, chain of events.
Will the girl that left England for this beautiful but dangerous land ever find her way back?
Katherine Webb
Katherine Webb grew up in rural Hampshire, England. She has lived in London and Venice, and she currently resides in Berkshire, England. Having worked as a wait-ress, au pair, personal assistant, potter, bookbinder, library assistant, and housekeeper at a manor house, she now writes full-time.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In 1958, Joan Seabrook, a woman in her 20s, goes to Arabia with her fiance, Rory. It is a place that she has always longed to visit and an additional draw is that her much-loved brother, Daniel, is there fighting in a war so she will hopefully get to see him. She also hopes to meet her idol, Maude Vickery, who explored Arabia in the early years of the century. Joan is a quiet but determined character and throughout the book she does some unexpected things to get what she wants but I think that is all part of her growth as a person. I found this book quite hard to get into at first and it's really quite long, but by a certain point I was looking forward to getting back to it and finding out what was happening to Joan next. We also have Maude's story and what happened to her was quite a shock to me. Although she was a quite unlikable character, I began to understand why.Katherine Webb has obviously done an incredible amount of research into the periods covered in the book. It's not an area I often read about so it was interesting to me, but also hard to imagine at times. I liked Joan's pluckiness and I particularly liked another character, Charlie, even though he didn't feature that much.In summary, I could have done with it being a bit shorter, but The English Girl is a book that will probably stay with me as it had some really compelling aspects to it.