Booklog 23/26: Janet Brooks: The Whisky Widow – Audiobook

[jacey]

Audiobook narrated by Annabelle Tudor.

A historical romance set in 1780 which has a lot more than just romance in it. Greer, MacAlistair an abandoned wife with a deaf daughter, Fen, leaves Edinburgh for the north when she's advised that her husband - an English exciseman - has been killed in the line of duty and therefore she can claim the wages owed to him. Unfortunately, upon making the request she discovers that his 'wife' has already clzimed it, and her own marriage lines count for nothing. She's rescued by Mr Gordon (a widower) and employed as his housekeeper, travelling to Glasglen, a remote highland village where the villagers survive by making illegal whisky and selling it to supplement their meagre agricultural subsistence. Gordon is at the heart of it. The villagers are hostile at first, especially Gordon's family, and Fen is despised for her deafness, until her 'finger-talking' learned in Edinburgh becomes central to the plot as the Excise men close in and Gordon lands in a heap of trouble. It's a long book, but it kept me invoilves and Annabelle Tudor reads it very well. Her Scottish accent rings true (Note I am not a Scot). Listening to samples of other books she's narrated she seems to so a variety of accents very will.