LADY CLEMENTINE

Elizabeth Sastre narrates as Lady Clementine Churchill, wife and partner of Winston Churchill, in a sweeping work of historical fiction that seems like historical fact. Sastre embodies the spunky, smart, and strong-willed Clementine as she swings emotionally from exasperation at her husband's decisions to devastation at the loss of a child. The story follows Clementine around the world, so Sastre's talent is on full display as she flawlessly switches accents, for example, moving from Clementine's posh British accent to Eleanor Roosevelt's flat American one. Clementine is a cloistered young woman when the audiobook begins and a wise, world-weary woman when it ends. Sastre's timbre changes as she ages, so listeners need not check the date on each chapter. A.R.F. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2020]