Unfortunate Stars, Susan Lanigan
Unfortunate Stars, Susan Lanigan
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Unfortunate Stars
A Wartime Confession

Author: Susan Lanigan

Narrator: Greg Patmore

Unabridged: 1 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2021


Synopsis

Czechoslovakia, 1938 - Friedrich Pflommer, a married man with two children, has fallen hopelessly in love with the most unsuitable person possible - the young, volatile Kai, an exchange student living under his own roof. As Nazi forces gather on the border, Friedrich is playing a high-stakes game and risks losing everything.France, 1915 - as a young lieutenant in wartime, Friedrich is badly injured during a failed counterattack, but a meeting with an Englishman during battle changes everything.Unfortunate Stars is a short story of romantic love and deep friendship between men, of what it is to surrender to our own truth, and to live it even in the hardest of circumstances."A story within a story, a moment between two wars. A harrowing read, but a gripping one." - Kathleen Jowitt, author of Speak Its Name

Reviews

This was a strong but short audiobook! It's only a few hours long, and as I can listen at a faster speed, it went so quickly. The story begins with a married man falling for another man in 1938 and this was a fascinating take on the heavily saturated genre of WW2 fiction. The literature tends to focus......more

Goodreads review by Dani on August 14, 2022

What a beautiful and tender story about wartime horrors, confessions and forbidden love. I loved the narration. It made me feel as if I was sitting listening to Friedrich himself recounting stories of love, friendship, death and war. This short story is as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking. And as......more

Goodreads review by Emma book blogger on August 31, 2022

Unfortunate Stars I listen to on audio book and it is Hour and 16 mins long. The story is set in 1938 in Czechoslovak. This story really gripped me and me feel sad because they had hide who they are and love. Unfortunate Stars is about forbidden love in the war time. I really liked Greg Palmore narr......more

Goodreads review by kirsty on August 11, 2022

I listened to this on audiobook and it was unbelievably good. It was well written, well narrated and had an absolutely compelling storyline that I just couldn't stop listening too. Considering this was such a short story the characters were also really well developed and I took them to my heart. As......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on August 19, 2022

Unfortunate Stars by Susan Lanigan (Narrated by Greg Patmore) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is Friedrich Pflommer’s story, a man who has fallen in love with someone he shouldn’t have, Kai. Kai is an exchange student living in Friedrichs house, several years younger than him and also a man. With the nazis on the war......more