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The Girl You Left Behind

AuthorJojo Moyes

NarratorClare Corbett

Duration14h 54m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels

PublisherW.F. Howes

VersionUnabridged

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France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre is ordered to serve the German officers who socialise in her hotel. When the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait-painted by her husband Edouard-a dangerous obsession is born. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston. A chance encounter reveals the painting's true worth-and its troubled history that is about to resurface and turn Liv's life upside down...

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