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    Some Day I'll Find You
    Some Day I'll Find You
    Some Day I'll Find You
    Audiobook11 hours

    Some Day I'll Find You

    Written by Richard Madeley

    Narrated by Jane McDowell

    3.5/5

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    James Blackwell is sexy and handsome and a fighter pilot - every girl's dream partner. At least that is what Diana Arnoldthinks when her brother first introduces them. Before long they are in love and marry hastily just as war is declared.

    Then fate delivers what is the first of its cruel twists: James, the day of their wedding, is shot down over Northern France and killed. Diana is left not only a widow but pregnant with their child.

    Ten years later, contentedly remarried, Diana finds herself in the south of France, sitting one morning in a sunny village square. A taxi draws up and she hears the voice of a man speaking English - the unmistakable voice of someone who will set out to torment her and blackmail her and from whom there can be only one means of escape...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio UK
    Release dateDec 5, 2013
    ISBN9781471133299
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    Richard Madeley

    Richard Madeley worked on local newspapers before moving to the BBC. He met Judy Finnigan when they both presented a news programme on Granada TV. Their eponymous TV show ran for seven years and was an enormous success. Richard Madeley has four children and lives in London and Cornwall.

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    • 4/5
      I don’t read many ‘celebrity’ written novels but the storyline for this debut novel sounded like something I would enjoy and I’m pleased to say I wasn’t disappointed. It was well written with an interesting and captivating storyline. I loved the short sharp chapters in the first part of the book; for me it certainly makes for quicker reading as I think I’ll just read one more chapter.…and then it’s the early hours!The first part of the book gives an indication of what kind of a man James Blackwell really is. Despite his good looks and charm, he is actually the type of man that should come with a warning notice. His insidious charm wins over the Arnold family, especially Diana. In the time leading up to the outbreak of WW2, Diana and James enjoy a whirlwind courtship and marriage and then tragedy strikes. Although Diana is written as a feisty character she seemed to have had a naivety and vulnerability where James was concerned and at times with the benefit of being an onlooker I wanted to shout “no don’t do it”. The main characters are extremely well drawn. Some of the lesser characters are not quite as well developed but nevertheless they have sufficient depth to make them believable. The main part of the story is set in the south of France and it’s obvious from the excellent descriptions of the locality that this comes from the author’s personal knowledge. I could imagine myself sitting at a pavement café in the sunny south of France watching the story unfold. I don’t want to give away any more of the plot, you can enjoy finding out for yourself but the twists and turns made this a book that I couldn’t put down and it was a very enjoyable read. My only niggle is with the poor proof reading – in some places the wrong names were used, for example ‘James’ instead of ‘John’ which was confusing and I also spotted some grammatical errors. I expect these mistakes in a proof copy but not in a copy on public sale.
    • 4/5
      Some Day I’ll Find You is a story of wartime romance and betrayal. The prologue starts in Nice a few years after the war, where Diana, sitting outside her favourite café, is stunned to hear a voice from her past as a taxi passes."As it passed her, she saw the silhouette of a man sitting in the back. He was leaning forward and speaking, in English, to the driver.‘No, not here. I told you – it’s much further up. Keep going all the way to the Hotel Negresco. And get a move on – I’m late enough as it is.’Diana swayed and gripped the back of her chair. Impossible.‘Stop!’ she called at last as the taxi reached the top of the square and began to turn on to the Promenade des Anglais. ‘Oh please, stop!’But the Citroen entered the flow of traffic and disappeared down the long curving road that bordered the sparkling Mediterranean.‘Madame!’ It was Armand, the patron, solicitous. ‘Do you have a problem?’‘No, no …’ She sat down again. ‘Everything’s fine, really.’But she was lying.Everything was wrong.Completely wrong."Then we flash back to 1938 and war is not yet a certainty. Diana Arnold is on holiday from studying at Girton, Cambridge. Her brother John is at RAF officer training school, and has made friends with James Blackwell, an East-ender and chancer who shouldn’t really be there, but has wangled his way in. James is penniless, so when they get leave, John invites him to join the Arnold family at home in Kent.The Arnolds are well off, Mr Arnold being a successful libel lawyer. Diana is a confident and beautiful young woman, and James immediately sees an opportunity to become set-up for life and he starts to woo her and her family. We get a hint of how callous James is underneath when he drops the hairdresser he’d been seeing with no explanation.The Arnolds fall for him, and he spins Diana sob-stories about his past, and she falls for him too and they get engaged. War intervenes and the boys are called into action. James and Diana decide to get married as soon as they can, and test out their conjugal bliss. Diana’s father is wary of their marriage, but her mother Gwen reminds him that they did exactly the same during WWI, and Oliver survived the trenches. Two days of leave give them the window to get married, but after the ceremony with Diana still in her wedding dress, John and James are immediately recalled to take to the skies in their spitfires – neither will return. Diana is widowed, and left pregnant with their child.She remarries to a rich, older man, who is happy to bring up her daughter, and they relocate to the Côte d’Azur, which is where her troubles begin again, when she hears that voice …I must admit that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was undemanding, but the plot had enough drama and the main characters were strong enough to keep me entertained. Diana, a strong-willed Daddy’s girl, could be rather petulant, and you did wonder whether she’d be able to change James, well for a short while anyway, but she has reserves of stiff upper lip that take over from the wild romance. You hope that she will be the making of James, but that would be rather boring, and when his true character starts to show it adds to the drama considerably – we need him to be a cad and bounder.Madeley’s text is unflashy, and flows smoothly. I couldn’t help but imagine him narrating the book in my head though, as the writing did feel like him reading a book out loud, if you get what I mean. He definitely has a voice in his writing; it will be interesting to see how his style develops in any future novels as it felt a little too like him in parts in this one.This was an excellent, light holiday read, and with the twin settings of wartime Kent, and 1950s Nice, I can easily imagine a two-part drama on the tellybox. (7.5/10)Book source: Publisher – Thank you.