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    The Second Winter
    The Second Winter
    The Second Winter
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Second Winter

    Written by Craig Larsen

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall

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    About this audiobook

    "A great historical novel, a touching family saga, and a noir wartime thriller all rolled into one terrific narrative." (Lee Child, The New York Times best-selling author)

    Winner, National Indie Excellence Award 2017 for Literary Fiction

    Bronze Winner, Foreword Indies 2016, War & Military

    Honorable Mention, San Francisco Book Festival 2017, General Fiction

    The fog of war shrouds occupied Denmark in the darkest days of World War II. On a farm in Jutland, Fredrik Gregersen struggles to keep his children fed, supplementing his income by smuggling refugees through Denmark into Sweden. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, Polina, a young Polish Jew, has been forced into prostitution by the Nazis. When Fredrik steals an heirloom necklace from a helpless Jewish family, his fate becomes intertwined with Polina's, entrapping them both in a complex web that takes decades to unravel.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthor's Republic
    Release dateMay 9, 2018
    ISBN9781982703998
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    • 5/5
      I couldn’t stop listening to it I listen to it straight through Couldn’t even get any sleep highly recommend it

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    • 5/5
      Great book, engrossing , deep story line, left me wanting more. What happened to Paulina?
    • 3/5
      It was probably a good story, but it didn’t keep my attention all that much and the characters could have been developed so much more.
    • 5/5
      I didn’t think I would like this book because it was very hard to get into. But I’m glad I stayed with it because it got to be a real page turner!
    • 5/5
      Such a great book! Well written! Interesting from start to finish
    • 4/5
      An emotional well told tale that gripped me until the end.
    • 1/5
      They tried adding to many explicit scenes that were not relevant to the story, it destroyed the flow of the plot which was weak to start.
    • 3/5
      Author writes in a visually stimulating way, but the pieces of the story could have been woven together better. I struggled to connect all of the parts to the story at at times was confused and wondering if I missed something.
    • 3/5
      I kept listening wanting to understand where the story was actually going. The characters didn’t really evolve enough for me to have any deep feeling for them. There were lots of unanswered aspects of the characters that I found perplexing, and somewhat disjointed.