BELLA

By Jilly Cooper

Synopsis

Bella Parkinson is the most promising actress in London, bright, sexy… and hopelessly scatterbrained. Rupert Henriques is dashingly handsome and wealthy enough to buy her every theatre in London if she wanted it; he cannot wait to marry her. But Bella has a secret from her past - and the one man who knows it is about to come back into her life again…

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Narrator	Ruth Urquhart
Length	5hrs 30mins
Catalogue No.	15215
Publisher	Rosa Audio; 2017

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