Whispers Between the Lines

A little white lie online. A massive disaster in the classroom.

Twenty-one-year-old literature undergrad Clare Mallard is barely surviving her physics requirements at Oxford University. Her one escape is her online boyfriend, Martin. He’s a brilliant, twenty-seven-year-old physics PhD student who patiently explains complex equations and makes her heart flutter. The only problem? To impress him, Clare panicked and claimed she was a twenty-five-year-old postgraduate.

Her harmless digital deception crashes into reality when her regular professor takes a leave of absence. Enter the new substitute lecturer: Martin Mercado.

In person, Martin isn’t the gentle genius she knows from late-night messages. He is intimidating, impossibly handsome, and absolutely ruthless—especially when he singles Clare out in front of the entire lecture hall to mock her disastrous lab report.

He has no idea that the bumbling undergrad he loves to torment is the same woman he’s falling for online. Clare is terrified of the fallout if she confesses her true identity, but dodging Martin becomes impossible when he demands flawless assignments, extra meetings, and when real-life sparks start flying.

Narrated by Fiona Hardingham, Whispers Between the Lines is a charming, laugh-out-loud British university romance. Packed with sharp banter, a delightful grumpy-meets-sunshine dynamic, and the chaos of mistaken identity, this audiobook will keep you hooked until the very last word.