What the Light Touches
A Novel
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Caroline Hewitt
About this listen
Acclaimed author Xavier Bosch weaves an emotional tale of love and intrigue in this novel about a woman on the cusp of middle age, her beloved grandma, and a strange houseguest who changes everything.
Seventeen-year-old Margaux doesn’t realize one photo could change the course of her life. But in German-occupied Paris, nothing makes sense anymore. Margaux fears the worst when her lover is arrested. And when her photo appears in Nazi propaganda, her family’s reputation and prospects suffer the consequences.
In 2008, Margaux has moved into a retirement home, and her granddaughter Barbara continues to live in the Paris apartment they used to share. Eager to escape unhappy circumstances, Barbara works remotely for a publishing company and rents out a room in “Mamie” Margaux’s apartment to help pay the bills.
One day, Barbara finds a stranger on her couch. Roger, who’s a curious photographer, uncovers shocking secrets about Barbara’s family. And when a snowstorm triggers a lockdown, he opens the door to tempting new possibilities.
A bestseller in its original Catalan at the 2023 Sant Jordi Book Fair, Bosch’s sweeping novel alternates between the two timelines, offering sustenance for historical fiction readers, WWII enthusiasts, and romantics alike.
©2023, 2025 by Xavier Bosch. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2025 by Samantha Mateo.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero. But to Tig, he’s a relative stranger. To find out more about him, Tig wants to talk to the person who knew her grandfather best: Eloise Price, the woman who murdered him fifty years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Jen Novak on 12-28-24
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This One Life
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
After years of hard work, Madeleine’s life is very nearly perfect. She’s about to move to LA to pursue her dream job—and there’s a new man on the scene too. But when her mother falls ill, pulling her back to the world she’s tried so hard to leave behind, the repercussions of a life-changing decision Madeleine made seven years ago resurface, threatening to jeopardise everything she’s worked for.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I Usually Love This Author’s Novels,
- By Jo from Texas on 03-22-25
By: Amanda Prowse
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Glamorous Notions
- A Novel
- By: Megan Chance
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4 out of 5 stars 57
Hollywood, 1955. As head costume designer for Lux Pictures, Lena Taylor hears startling confessions from the biggest movie stars. She knows how to keep their secrets—after all, none of their scandals can match her own. Lena was once Elsie Gruner, the daughter of an Ohio dressmaker. Her gift for fashion design helped her win a coveted spot at an art academy in Rome. While in Italy, she became enthralled by the charismatic Julia, who drew her into a shadowy world of jazz clubs, code words, and mysterious deliveries.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Story is interesting but too drawn out.
- By Maureen Rodriguez on 03-24-25
By: Megan Chance
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The Autumn of Ruth Winters
- A Novel
- By: Marshall Fine
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 120
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Story4 out of 5 stars 120
Ruth Winters is retired, widowed, and resigned to spending the rest of her life alone in her suburban home. She likes her routine and uses it to avoid having to spend time with other people. She probably wouldn’t call herself fulfilled, but it’s too late now to go chasing happiness. Then three things happen at once: a beloved niece makes a big announcement, an old flame reaches out, and her estranged sister receives life-changing news.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ruth was a realistic character with relatable feelings.
- By Happy customer on 02-02-25
By: Marshall Fine
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There's Something About Mira
- A Novel
- By: Sonali Dev
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Mira Salvi has the perfect life—a job she loves, a fiancé everyone adores, and the secure future she’s always imagined for herself. Really, she hasn’t a thing to complain about, not even when she has to go on her engagement trip to New York alone. While playing tourist in the city, Mira chances upon a lost ring, and her social media post to locate its owner goes viral. With everyone trying to claim the ring, only one person seems to want to find its owner as badly as Mira does: journalist Krish Hale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- By HT on 02-09-25
By: Sonali Dev
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Their Shadows Deep
- A Novel
- By: Peter Golden
- Narrated by: Laura Darrell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy makes a historic run for the White House. Despite concerns about his Catholicism, Kennedy’s outward charm is winning the country over, but his inner demons are putting his candidacy in danger and risk destroying his political career. That same year, Caitlin Russo, a former cop turned reporter, is devoting her skills to finding her husband’s killer. His job as a CIA operative posed its fair share of risks, but when Caitlin discovers his notes about the case that led to his death, she knows there’s more to the story than simple tragedy.
By: Peter Golden
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Some Other Time
- A Novel
- By: Angela Brown
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
The next step in Ellie Baker’s marriage: divorce. She and her husband, Jonah, are heading to Florida to break it to the family. No great drama to share. After twenty years of marriage, they’ve just fallen out of love. Simple. Not to their college-age daughter, Maggie, who is devastated. Or to Ellie’s father, Frank, who grows as cold as a retiree can get in Orlando. As for Ellie’s mother, Bunny: no, no, no. She doesn’t want to hear it. After a dreadful weekend, Ellie and Jonah return home to New Jersey with hearts and minds still set on a split.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Almost didn’t finish
- By KW on 04-05-25
By: Angela Brown
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The Sky Beneath Us
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price, Mhairi Morrison
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and cultures that are worlds away from everything and everyone she’s left behind in Scotland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strange cadence from narrator
- By Joanna Scarborough on 01-07-25
By: Fiona Valpy
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A Borrowed Path
- By: Imogen Clark
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
When Eve returns to her family home Fox House, the tension with her mother, Agatha, is palpable. But when Eve’s daughter, Lyra, and her granddaughter, Skye, arrive unexpectedly, four generations of women under one roof set the stage for explosive revelations. Lyra seems troubled, but refuses to explain why. And when she lays claim to the crumbling cottage on the estate, Agatha drops a bombshell – she’s already promised it to a mysterious man named Dylan.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed the book
- By Mya Edwards on 03-09-25
By: Imogen Clark
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If We Ever Get There
- A Novel
- By: Laura Barrow
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
When her nineteen-year marriage ends, stay-at-home mom Effie Baker takes the first step into her new life with an extreme makeover. She assumes she’ll wake up with a renewed sense of confidence, not a vision of country music icon Patsy Cline telling her she needs to “set things right.” But like everything else lately, the last thing Effie expected is exactly what she gets.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t Finish This One, It May Deserve a Lot More Stars
- By Jo from Texas on 12-11-24
By: Laura Barrow
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Hill of Secrets
- A Novel
- By: Galina Vromen
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
Los Alamos, 1943. The US Army has gathered scientists to create the world’s first nuclear weapon. Their families, abruptly moved to the secret desert base with no explanation, have simple orders: Stand by. Make do. Above all, don’t ask questions. Christine, forced to abandon her art restoration business in New York for her husband’s career, struggles to reinvent herself and cope with his increasing aloofness. Gertie, the inquisitive teenage daughter of a German Jewish refugee physicist enlists Christine to help her unravel hidden truths and deal with parents haunted by their past.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not historical
- By Cindi Trunk on 10-11-24
By: Galina Vromen
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White Mulberry
- A Novel
- By: Rosa Kwon Easton
- Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Inspired by the life of Easton’s grandmother, White Mulberry is a rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and must reclaim her true identity to provide a future for her family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Understanding survival
- By Leatine Fasano on 04-26-25
By: Rosa Kwon Easton
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Catch You Later
- A Novel
- By: Jessica Strawser
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
If Lark and Mikki didn’t have each other, they’d have nothing in this miserable town. So the best friends stick together, working night shift at the highway travel stop, going nowhere fast. Until a stranger drops in, heading for Florida, and Mikki impulsively leaves with him, never to be seen again. Eight years later, Lark is finally getting her life back together for the sake of her young daughter and Mikki’s lovably prickly grandma, who can no longer care for herself. People have almost stopped blaming Lark for Mikki’s disappearance, and she’s engaged to the nicest guy on highway patrol.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- By Lizzyyyy on 02-11-25
By: Jessica Strawser
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The French Winemaker’s Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Loretta Ellsworth
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Charlotte, a commercial airline pilot, attends an auction with her boyfriend Henri at Hotel Drouot, now the oldest auction house in Paris. Successfully bidding on a box of wine saved from the German occupation during the Second World War, Henri gives Charlotte a seemingly inferior bottle he finds inside the box. Cleaning the label, Charlotte makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a quest to find the origins of this unusual—and very valuable—bottle of wine, a quest that will take her back fifty years into the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding performance!
- By Deborah Ward on 04-19-25
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An Age of Winters
- A Novel
- By: Gemma Liviero
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Alex Wyndham
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In 1625, the Franconian village of Eisbach has been plagued by disease, famine, heinous crimes, and a merciless winter. Katarin Jaspers is the maidservant to the enigmatic Reverend Zacharias Engel, appointed by Rome to cure the village of suspected diabolism and save every God-fearing soul.
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2 out of 5 stars
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slow paced story
- By Amazon Customer on 04-16-25
By: Gemma Liviero
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The Dressmaker's Gift
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Justine Eyre
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,704
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,314
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,302
From the best-selling author of The Beekeeper’s Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history - and their families - judge them? Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne’s involvement is something she can’t reveal to either of them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fifty/Fifty
- By Eliza McNally on 10-28-19
By: Fiona Valpy
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