Why didn't they consider a consistent approach with the main character? Katherine has a French accent when the man is speaking and an English accent when the woman reads! And yet the man pronounces Beaulieu Abbey correctly and the woman doesn't (I'm from Beaulieu so picked up on this straight away). Oh dear - what were they thinking? Where do I start? Well, the story is pretty good, once you get through the bizarre, and frankly awful, narration! I did find the portrayal of Richard too biased, but that may have been more about the way the narrator chose to read - like a Shakespearean villain! Why two narrators? It just makes it confusing and disjointed - it's like I'm listening to two different books. Susan Higginbotham brought to life some of the lesser known characters from the Plantaganet era so it is such a shame that the narration did not do any justice to the story I would have felt that way if not for the narrators Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? He hardly changed voices/accents all the way through so that I was not always sure who was speaking. Alison's 'little girly' voice all the way through was irritating in the extreme and John Lee sounded like a pedantic but bored history professor.

Would you be willing to try another one of John Lee and Alison Larkin ’s performances? Harry Buckingham - I could feel for him from his lonely childhood through to his apparent manipulation by Richard, Duke of Gloucester. It introduces characters not before given much importance int the Plantagenet story/war of the roses and fills in many gaps

What did you like most about The Stolen Crown?

The Stolen Crown by Susan Higginbotham