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Secret For A Nightingale [Audio Cassette]

Victoria Holt (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)


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July 1, 1993
As a young girl in India, Susanna Pleydell first becomes aware of her special gifts of healing. But she puts aside her dream of helping others when she meets the dashing Aubrey St. Clare.

Back home in Victorian London, Susanna, now married, finds St. Clare has a weakness for opium and the occult. Worse, he falls in with Damien Adair, a sinister physician who controls him in ways that are frightening, often terrifying, to her.

When tragedy strikes, Susanna holds Damien responsible. But she cannot forget him. He haunts her dreams. . .and holds the key to the most sinister secret of all!

"A great story and a great mystery as well!" (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)


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In this Victorian romance, Susanna Pleydell loses her husband to drugs and her dearly loved child to her husband's neglect. She develops an obsessive hatred for Damien Adair, the physician she holds responsible for both tragedies. She tries to forget by taking up a nursing career, eventually going to the Crimea. There, working beside Dr. Adair, she finds herself attracted to him despite her hatred. The ending is predictable. This is one of the better Holt novels, with a well-drawn historical background. Susanna does not always make sense, but she is a strong and loving woman whose friendships ignore class boundaries. Literary Guild main selection. Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Coll. Lib., Davenport, Ia.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. (July 1, 1993)
  • ISBN-10: 0736624864
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736624862
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,870,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Romance and social reform, September 6, 2006
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This romance centers on the life of Susanna, the rather sheltered daughter of a widowed British colonel stationed in India. After her education in England Susanna returned to her father in India but soon found romance with the charming, wealthy heir to a country estate 'back home'. Soon after her marriage Susanna realized that her husband was addicted to drugs, and that a well known doctor and author was involved in his circle of drug taking friends. When Susanna can endure no more of this life she leaves her husband - a shocking action in Victorian society - and becomes involved with the equally shocking Florence Nightingale. Susanna's path leads her to Germany and then the Crimean War theater. Along the way she learns not only nursing but to question long held beliefs about her society and herself.

As is typical of Ms Holt's work romance abounds in exotic locations. Although the plot is rather formulistic and the mysteries quite transparent and the happy ending obvious from the beginning it is an entertaining way to spend a few hours.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of her best!, March 15, 1999
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Victoria Holt really captures you in this one. She keeps you hanging on till the end wondering whom the heroine will end up with in this one. It has great historical insite too, which is not a surprise to Victoria Holt fans. In this one the heroine follows Florence Nightingale to heal soldiers and try to improve hospital conditions. She finds herself falling in love with a doctor she suspects of killing her child and ruining her husband with drugs. It is wonderful and you have to read it if you like Victoria Holt at all.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a secret for a nightengale!, August 16, 2000
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This book is my second favorite of Victoria Holt's, my first being "The Demon Lover". Her books are quality romance/mystery/history, which are hard to find these days. This book realistically portrays the struggle of a nurse durring WWI, not just with her nursing duties but with her immense personal struggles as well.
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