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The Godmother (MP3)
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Title:
The Godmother (MP3)
Written by:
Hannelore Cayre 
Read by:
Julia Franklin 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
5 hours 43 minutes 
MP3 size:
247 MB 
Published:
September 03 2019 
Available Date:
September 03 2019 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9780655621669 
Genres:
Fiction; Crime & Thriller 
Publisher:
Bolinda audio 
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A taut and darkly funny account of an unusual woman and her voyage into the underground ecosystem of crime and justice in contemporary France.

Meet Patience Portefeux, 53, an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her ageing mother. She’s laboured for 25 years to keep everyone’s heads above water. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in – and infiltrating – the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path: Patience becomes ‘the Godmother’. This is not life in the French idyll of postcards and stock photos. With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians who are more real than life itself, a sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France, and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore Cayre’s bestselling novel shines a torchlight on a European criminal underground that has rarely been seen.

'Narrator Julia Franklin does a wonderful job of bringing 53-year-old Patience and a wide selection of colorful characters to life. Her characterization of Patience is particularly strong, giving the listener the sense of someone who has a strong moral compass--but one that is pointing in a different direction from the norm. '
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