Tomboy
Shelley Blanton-Stroud
It’s 1939. Jane’s got five days at sea to solve the murder of a Wimbledon champion’s coach and submit a gossip column that tells the truth. If not the facts...
On the brink of World War II, Jane Benjamin wants to have it all. By day she hustles as a scruffy, tomboy cub reporter. By night she secretly struggles to raise her toddler sister, Elsie, and protect her from their mother. But Jane’s got a plan: she’ll become the San Francisco Prospect’s first gossip columnist and make enough money to care for Elsie.
Jane finagles her way to the women’s championship at Wimbledon, starring her hometown’s tennis phenom and cover girl Tommie O’Rourke. She plans to write her first column there. But then she witnesses Edith “Coach” Carlson, Tommie’s closest companion, drop dead in the stands of apparent heart attack, and her plan is thrown off track.
While sailing home on the RMS Queen Mary, Jane veers between competing instincts: Should she write a social bombshell column, personally damaging her new friend Tommie’s persona and career? Or should she work to uncover the truth of Coach’s death, which she now knows was a murder, and its connection to a larger conspiracy involving US participation in the coming war?
Putting away her menswear and donning first-class ballgowns, Jane discovers what upper-class status hides, protects, and destroys. Ultimately—like nations around the globe in 1939—she must choose what she’ll give up in order to do what’s right.
Duration - 8h 23m.
Author - Shelley Blanton-Stroud.
Narrator - April Doty.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2022 Shelley Blanton-Stroud ©.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Shelley Blanton-Stroud
April Doty
Jane Benjamin Novels
She Writes Press
English Audiobooks
Findaway Audiobooks
Description:
It’s 1939. Jane’s got five days at sea to solve the murder of a Wimbledon champion’s coach and submit a gossip column that tells the truth. If not the facts... On the brink of World War II, Jane Benjamin wants to have it all. By day she hustles as a scruffy, tomboy cub reporter. By night she secretly struggles to raise her toddler sister, Elsie, and protect her from their mother. But Jane’s got a plan: she’ll become the San Francisco Prospect’s first gossip columnist and make enough money to care for Elsie. Jane finagles her way to the women’s championship at Wimbledon, starring her hometown’s tennis phenom and cover girl Tommie O’Rourke. She plans to write her first column there. But then she witnesses Edith “Coach” Carlson, Tommie’s closest companion, drop dead in the stands of apparent heart attack, and her plan is thrown off track. While sailing home on the RMS Queen Mary, Jane veers between competing instincts: Should she write a social bombshell column, personally damaging her new friend Tommie’s persona and career? Or should she work to uncover the truth of Coach’s death, which she now knows was a murder, and its connection to a larger conspiracy involving US participation in the coming war? Putting away her menswear and donning first-class ballgowns, Jane discovers what upper-class status hides, protects, and destroys. Ultimately—like nations around the globe in 1939—she must choose what she’ll give up in order to do what’s right. Duration - 8h 23m. Author - Shelley Blanton-Stroud. Narrator - April Doty. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2022 Shelley Blanton-Stroud ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
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002 chapter 2 tomboy
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003 chapter 3 tomboy
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008 chapter 8 tomboy
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009 chapter 9 tomboy
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010 chapter 10 tomboy
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013 chapter 13 tomboy
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015 chapter 15 tomboy
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017 chapter 17 tomboy
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018 chapter 18 tomboy
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020 chapter 20 tomboy
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021 chapter 21 tomboy
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022 chapter 22 tomboy
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023 chapter 23 tomboy
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024 chapter 24 tomboy
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027 chapter 27 tomboy
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028 chapter 28 tomboy
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029 chapter 29 tomboy
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031 chapter 31 tomboy
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034 chapter 34 tomboy
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039 chapter 39 tomboy
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041 chapter 41 tomboy
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045 chapter 45 tomboy
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046 chapter 46 tomboy
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048 chapter 48 tomboy
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050 chapter 50 tomboy
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054 chapter 54 tomboy
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056 chapter 56 tomboy
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057 chapter 57 tomboy
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058 chapter 58 tomboy
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059 chapter 59 tomboy
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060 authors note tomboy
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Ending Credits
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