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  • The Fortune Hunter

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  • Written by: Daisy Goodwin
  • Narrated by: Clare Corbett
  • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
  • 2.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Fortune Hunter

Written by: Daisy Goodwin
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi", is the Princess Diana of 19th-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman in England. He is also impoverished, with no hope of buying the horse needed to win the Grand National - until he meets Charlotte Baird.

A clever, plainspoken heiress whose money gives her a choice among suitors, Charlotte falls in love with Bay, the first man to really notice her, for his vulnerability as well as his glamour. When Sisi joins the legendary hunt organized by Earl Spencer in England, Bay is asked to guide her on the treacherous course. Their shared passion for riding leads to an infatuation that threatens the growing bond between Bay and Charlotte, and all of their futures.

The Fortune Hunter, the brilliant new novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures.
©2014 Daisy Goodwin Productions (P)2014 Headline Digital
Biographical Fiction Literary Fiction
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Just was such a slow story.

I just couldn't get past the first few chapters. It was such a slow story and I just could not become drawn in. Disappointed because I read such wonderful reviews online.

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