The Best Man
Written by Grace Livingston Hill
Narrated by Gail Mattern and LibriVox Community
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About this audiobook
Cyril Gordon, a young and handsome secret service agent is running from pursuers who desperately want the information he holds. He hides out from them in a church, and then finds himself married to a woman he’s never seen before. A sweet and sometimes, funny, romance, with several exciting chases.
Summary by Gail Mattern
Grace Livingston Hill
Grace Livingston Hill was an early–twentieth century novelist who wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote more than one hundred novels and numerous short stories. She was born in Wellsville, New York, in 1865 to Marcia Macdonald Livingston and her husband, Rev. Charles Montgomery Livingston. Hill’s writing career began as a child in the 1870s, writing short stories for her aunt’s weekly children’s publication, The Pansy. She continued writing into adulthood as a means to support her two children after her first husband died. Hill died in 1947 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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Reviews for The Best Man
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Boring and just couldn't take the narrator's voice. It was too distracting.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was better than I thought it would be. Clean and fairly G rated, and yet still had suspense and chase senes. Cute book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent story and clean you will love it! Highly recommend it!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was quite the remarkably written storyline! I enjoyed it very much!
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Of course the reader was annoying.. most readers of LibriVox community are. There are no professional narrators on this site. I suspected that 3 books ago…now i am sure.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This story is riveting, suspenseful and humorous. As usual, there’s a happy ending. Very entertaining reading.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really liked how the woman’s accent let Grace Livingston’s English come thru. I have always loved her books and read most of them growing up.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Reader was annoying - took some getting used continue