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[The Paris Wife] [By: McLain, Paula] [January, 2012]
by Paula McLain
Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
You already know how it ends — Hemingway leaves — and yet Carrington MacDuffie makes Hadley's hope feel heartbreakingly real anyway.
- Great if you want: intimate historical fiction told from the woman left behind
- Listening experience: slow, lush, and melancholy — not a plot-driven listen
- Narration: MacDuffie's warm restraint suits Hadley's quiet, observant voice perfectly
- Skip if: you find Hemingway romanticization grating
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About This Audiobook
Hadley Richardson meets Ernest Hemingway in Chicago in 1920 and within months they are married and sailing for Paris. The novel follows their years together in the expatriate circle of the Lost Generation, through poverty and artistic struggle and Hemingway's rising fame, from the perspective of the woman who loved him completely and whom he would eventually leave. Paula McLain's historical novel is told entirely from Hadley's point of view, restoring her to a story in which she has usually been a minor figure.
Carrington MacDuffie brings warmth and genuine restraint to Hadley's narration, honoring the character's combination of clear-eyed intelligence and deeply felt love without softening the grief of what is always coming. The Paris of the 1920s comes alive in MacDuffie's delivery, and the novel's texture of literary ambition and personal cost is rendered with care. This Goodreads Choice Award winner for Historical Fiction is one of the more beautifully performed literary audiobooks in the catalog.