This HaBO is from Meagan, a librarian who is trying to help out a patron:
I’m a librarian who’s trying to help one of my readers find an audiobook she remembers listening to last year, but can’t remember the title. I’ve done some digging, but no luck so far. I’ll include the details below, and hope that it rings some bells for you or that you’d be willing to put a call out to the bitchery. Thanks, and happy reading!!
It’s a historical set in the 1800s or perhaps 1900s in a shipyard, or perhaps on the docks. The heroine has an affair with a man she believes is, in my patron’s terms, a “hobo,” although I think she’s using this a general term for a laborer or lower class man. It turns out he’s an aristocrat who attended Eton. The only other thing she remembers is that the narrator was male.
Not a lot to go on, but I thought I’d give it a try!
Why is this so familiar to me?!
Ruined City by Neville Shute has an upper class hero mistaken for a hobo by the heroine who is almoner for a hospital in a north-east shipbuilding town.
You may see if it is a Stephanie Laurens book. I think almost all if not all of her audiobooks are narrated by men, and she often has the sea or seaports as the setting.
For some reason Lauren Willig is coming to mind but maybe it’s too much eggnog?
Thanks everybody! I’ll pass this on to my patron and keep my fingers crossed.
Is it just me or does this sound a lot like the plot to My Man Godfrey??? Of course the movie is set in America not England, but still.