The Lawrence Browne Affair

De: Cat Sebastian

Narrado por: Gary Furlong

An earl hiding from his future...

Lawrence Browne, the Earl of Radnor, is mad. At least that's what he and most of the village believes. A brilliant scientist, he hides himself away in his family's crumbling estate, unwilling to venture into the outside world. When an annoyingly handsome man arrives at Penkellis, claiming to be Lawrence's new secretary, his carefully planned world is turned upside down.

A swindler haunted by his past...

Georgie Turner has made his life pretending to be anyone but himself. A swindler and con man, he can slip into an identity faster than he can change clothes. But when his long-dead conscience resurrects and a dangerous associate is out for blood, Georgie escapes to the wilds of Cornwall. Pretending to be a secretary should be easy, but he doesn't expect that the only madness he finds is the one he has for the gorgeous earl. Can they find forever in the wreckage of their lives? Challenging each other at every turn, the two men soon give in to the desire that threatens to overwhelm them. But with one man convinced he is at the very brink of madness and the other hiding his real identity, only true love can make this an affair to remember.

©2017 Cat Sebastian (P)2017 Tantor

Spectacular, Gary Furlong Was Perfect!

Spectacular!!!

This series is so well done! The first one was amazing, but I liked this one even more. The characters are so creative and interesting, and the story was unique and kept me guessing. Obviously the ending is a given, but how they get there? Wonderful.

Audio is a great way to enjoy Cat Sebastian. Gary Furlong was born to read these characters and delivers a flawless performance. His accents are beautifully varied and it's easy to distinguish between the different characters, I always enjoy listening to him.

Another Intriguing Listen

The story and narrator remain compelling and intriguing. I can't stop consuming this series, and only feel disappointment when the story comes to an end. Cat Sebastian manages to create characters and weave stories that keep me engaged, interested, and entertained.

Hard to put down

Perfect balancing of everything a classic romance needs. One of my ansolute favorites for certain!

The story

I loved the story. It kept you on your toes. The narrator was great. It’s a good listen that you can submerge into.

great book, i wondered about George Turner

attention to detail and great characters development, the situation is compelling and interesting , good reader

What an amazing story!

How this already isn't made into a movie is beyond me. Extremely well written. The performance by the reader was outstanding. He really captured the unique voices (and accents) of each of the characters. I dreaded getting to the last chapter because I knew the story would end. Excellent!

Savior in Thieves Clothing

This is the second time I've listened to Cat Sebastian's The Lawrence Browne Affair, and I actually enjoyed it even more. Gary Furlong's narration was so velvety English accent perfection that the excellent story Sebastian wrote was truly elevated. The publisher's blurb will tell you the bare bones of the story of an earl living in Cornwall who was so terribly abused and damaged by his father and older brother that he believed himself to be doomed to madness. When a charlatan in hiding from angry London criminals arrives on his doorstep to be his secretary, the Earl of Radnor is completely overwhelmed. It's a delightful historical fiction and the romance is compelling, though not the whole story. Well written, thoroughly enjoyable, very much worth a credit and more than one listen.

Charming love story

Well written. Well acted and narrated. Good psychological tale of two people in need of inspiration.

Thief with heart of gold meets Mad Earl

I enjoyed this story but it took a little willing suspension of disbelief above the usual. Most of it could likely be ignored but I’ve listened to it twice & the same things stood out to me. They may or may not have explanations in other books of the series (I have read a couple, but not all) & may or may not bother other readers. But I wanted to root for the characters so I enjoyed it, and would recommend it even with these concerns. Two men from opposite ends of the economic, social, & other backgrounds meet each other somewhere in the middle by changing each other’s minds about what is & isn’t “normal” or possible. And there’s a friendly dog.

Lawrence & Georgie are an earl & his sketchy secretary. They are thrust together by circumstances that felt plausible enough, except it’s never explained how Georgie learned to read & write. He usually had a home as a kid, but with a day job of street thieving he was not sitting in school. Maybe it was in a previous book? Also, I kind of get how Georgie’s projection makes him want to welcome son Simon into the household, but his over-enthusiasm was still a little weird. Lawrence’s icy shut out felt more likely since people behaving badly & hurting others while convincing themselves they’re helping is all too common a character trait. As a reader, I was all in for Georgie making things welcoming for Simon, even if I couldn’t fully figure out why he was so gung ho. Since the earl already figured out what to do or not do by doing the opposite of what he thought his family would do, It made it easier to believe he could be persuaded out of long held notions about himself inflicted by his horrible family.

Worldbuilding: Done with a light hand. The secondary characters in this book are in other books so there’s a consistent group of people for series readers to check in with. I read this after a sequel, though, and Courtney was decent enough around Simon that I don’t know why later plots cut him out. I did like how the mysterious noises & whatnot around the castle all got explained.

Steam: Medium/MLow. There’s some explicit M/M action on page. There’s a decent amount of flirting and once the guys are on the same page, & Georgie convinces Lawrence that being gay isn’t a sign of madness, their enthusiasm for each other is satisfying. The focus is more on the emotions but the physicality is there to back them up.

Narration: Narrator’s voice is mild with a mild accent that, while making it easy to parse words, didn’t distinguish characters much. There were two POVs, something I prefer in a romance, but it could get tricky. If I zoned out a little while listening, I either had to rewind or work to figure out which character was which. They had unique enough written voices it wasn’t as hard to tell POVs as it was in Courtney’s later book, but it was still work. The sound quality was fine.

love these books

I really enjoy this series. my only disappointment would be the cover art as I do not envision the main characters the same.