Beauty's Hour by Olivia Shakespear audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

In late-Victorian London, Mary Gower is clever, observant, and quietly funny, the sort of woman whose conversation lingers in a room long after she has left it. But in a society that rewards faces more than minds, Mary is dismissed as too plain to be truly seen, especially by Gerald Harman, the charming man she cannot help watching from the edges of fashionable life. Then, in a moment of uncanny discovery at her dressing-table mirror, Mary learns she can change her appearance by sheer force of will. With that single, impossible talent, she steps into the world again as Mary Hatherley, a woman of striking beauty who suddenly commands attention, invitations, and desire. Yet the new face does not erase the old self, and each transformation sharpens the story's central question: what, exactly, do people love when they claim to love you? As Mary's double life pulls her toward romance and social triumph, it also draws suspicion, obsession, and a mounting sense that the power she has awakened may demand a price. Beauty's Hour is a gothic-tinged psychological fantasy about self-image, gendered expectations, and the perilous gap between being admired and being known.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:12) Chapter 02

(00:21:42) Chapter 03

(00:31:49) Chapter 04

(00:42:23) Chapter 05

(00:55:16) Chapter 06

(01:05:54) Chapter 07

(01:23:46) Chapter 08

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