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Abigail of Venice

By: Leigh Russell
Narrated by: Charlie Albers
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Summary

A sixteenth-century Jewish woman flees persecution and an abusive marriage in this historical saga from "a brilliant talent" (Jeffery Deaver).

When soldiers attack the inhabitants of a Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Lithuania, Abigail manages to escape both the attack and her abusive husband, Reuven. She travels over land and sea to Venice, where she settles in another ghetto. Believing Reuven is dead, Abigail falls in love with her widowed neighbor, Daniel. But before Abigail and Daniel announce their betrothal, her violent husband reappears.

Reuven is arrested for drunken brawling and sentenced to slavery in the galleys. Abigail hopes she has finally seen the last of him, but he returns to Venice, and Abigail fears she will never be free of him . . .

From the Dagger Award finalist and acclaimed author of the Geraldine Steel novels, Abigail of Venice is an engrossing story of forbidden love that explores domestic violence, religious persecution, the Inquisition, and witch burning against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods of European history.

Contains mature themes.
©2021 Leigh Russell (P)2022 Tantor
Fiction Genre Fiction Jewish Renaissance Women's Fiction Marriage Italy
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Good Story - Terrible Narration

I read the book on Kindle and recommended it to my Mum who listened on Audible but unfortunately the narration was terrible! Sounded like hammy actors in a very amateur pantomime! If I shut my eyes I could see the villain of the story twiddling his black curly moustache! I wish narrators would read books as though you were reading it to yourself without all the silly voice changes and bad accents

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