Unabridged Audiobook
I don't usually listen to biographies that are really long but this was superb and it kept my interest thru then entire 20+ hours of listening. Elizabeth Elliott is so much more than the missionary widow who's husband was killed on mission. In this biography she becomes a real human with real faults and fears. The reader brings her to life authentically and you feel like you are watching her grow from a sheltered and very strict fundamentalist through her maturation as a woman, a wife, a mother, missionary, and a Christian. The author quotes her almost too often but it is easy to recognize not like many biographical audiobooks where you can't tell her exact words. You can hear even her voice mature in her quotes as she goes from girlish meanderings in her journals to honest and sometimes painful searching. I think it is sometimes harsh in the author's brutal honesty, but it made Elizabeth Elliott the more real and human. All that to say I enjoyed this audiobook immensely!
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