The Rose Villa, Leah Fleming
The Rose Villa, Leah Fleming
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The Rose Villa

Author: Leah Fleming

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 04/01/2022

Synopsis

High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now - in the aftermath of World War 1 - it is a convalescent home for sick and wounded nurses. Scottish Flora Garvie is here recovering from four traumatic years on the ambulance trains. And here she will meet again charismatic but troubled Kit Carlyle, a regimental chaplain who no longer believes in his calling and certainly doesn't believe himself worthy of Flora's love. Their dramatic rollercoaster of a story will take them through death, separation and war, until a terrifying game of cat and mouse in Occupied France seals their fate.

About Leah Fleming

Leah Fleming was born in Lancashire and was married with three sons and a daughter. She wrote from an old farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales and an olive grove in Crete.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Missy

I am finding more and more historical fiction about World War I, and it is very interesting to me as it really isn't a time really taught in school (back in the dark ages when I went). This is the story of Flora Garvie, a nurse who is recovering in the Riviera of France. There she meets Kit Carlyle,......more

Goodreads review by Joanne

Having read quite a few of Fleming’s books I was keen to read this, especially as I have spent some time in Collioure and love the quaint seaside town. However it just didn’t grab me. I found the story too predictable at times and so far fetched at others.......more

Goodreads review by Trish

Having loved The Last Pearl by Leah Flemming I expected to love this. I didn't. For some reason which I have no idea how I thought this would be a lovely, gentle love story. It is a war novel. Well researched but often quite depressing. VERY LONG and at one stage I considered not finishing but I kep......more

Goodreads review by Ann

This story spans more than 20 years. We travel with the heroine, Flora, from the end of WW1 to the end of WW11. It is well written and is a good story but I felt a bit let down at the end, after all that angst, all that trauma, living through terrible times I would have liked a chapter of what happe......more

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