New Amish Romance audiobook The Younger Man by Brenda Maxfield, available now performed by Trudi Knoedlr
Hello again, dear audiobooks friends! Today’s spotlight article is dedicated to The Younger Man, a new Amish Romance by Brenda Maxfield.
The audio production is a little under six hours and is performed by talented narrator Trudi Knoedler. As always, it is a pleasure finding Trudi Knoedler behind the mic, and her deeply personal performance of these stories is one of the reasons why I enjoy them so much. She always manages to bring characters to life in a pleasant and entertaining way.
Let’s take a look at the Publisher’s Summary in order to find out some details about the story, and after that, I will introduce you to our narrator and author.
Julia Bontrager’s world collapses when her husband is killed in a freak accident. Suddenly a single mother with three children to raise and a farm to work, she flounders to survive. Her in-laws pressure her to return to Illinois, but Julia won’t give up her late husband’s dream; nor can she imagine living with her difficult and dominating mother-in-law.
In desperation, she hires a young Amish man to take over the bulk of the farm work. When he begins to fall for her, Julia is faced with even more questions and decisions. Battling through her grief, Julia discovers that perhaps God has more for her than she ever dreamed possible.
Brenda Maxfield started writing as a child, stories of fairy princesses and talking animals. She has since set them aside to write Amish romances, reflecting the Amish and Mennonite communities of the United States. Her stories reveal the day-to-day lifestyles of individuals in this population, along with their heartaches and triumphs, and always with a bit of romance thrown in, to complicate matters. Her objective is always to offer the reader a good, clean read with high moral values.
When not writing, Brenda is a high school teacher. She has lived in Honduras, Grand Cayman, and Costa Rica, and presently resides with her husband, Paul in Indiana, not far from the Amish communities there.
Trudi Knoedler has been a voice actress since 2015, doing primarily audiobooks using many characters and accents for fiction, and straight, personal and intelligent delivery for non-fiction. She has produced 23 audiobooks during the past 7 years and is also a VO actress.
Although she is most often cast to do historical fiction or suspense, The Younger Man was of particular interest to her because her family were Germans from Romania whose old-fashioned style of German speech is not too far removed from Amish. When not producing audiobooks, she enjoys the role of “Oma” to her two spirited granddaughters.
I will return in September with a full review for The Younger Man, but until then, take care, stay safe, and don’t forget, always listen with your heart!
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