The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel by Joanna Quinn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel Author: Joanna Quinn Narrator: Olivia Vinall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation. “Absolute aces...Quinn’s imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.” —The New York Times “Utterly heartbreaking and joyous.” —Jo Baker, author of Longbourn One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household—her sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artist—build a theatre from the beast’s skeletal rib cage. Within the Whalebone Theatre, Cristabel can escape her feckless stepparents and brisk governesses, and her imagination comes to life. As Cristabel grows into a headstrong young woman, World War II rears its head. She and Digby become British secret agents on separate missions in Nazi-occupied France—a more dangerous kind of playacting, it turns out, and one that threatens to tear the family apart.