AuthorPenelope Lively
NarratorAnna Bentinck
Duration8h 35m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels
PublisherIsis
VersionUnabridged
When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events. In this engaging, utterly absorbing and brilliantly told novel, Penelope Lively shows us how one random event can cause marriages to fracture and heal themselves, opportunities to appear and disappear, lovers who might never have met to find each other and entire lives to become irrevocably changed.
Author: Penelope Lively
Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Denise Asserson
Duration 7h
Pauline is filled with dread at the passion that her daughter Teresa has for Maurice. During the long, hot summer, she remembers the way that her possessive love for Teresa's father eroded her youth, and she is determined to prevent the same happening to Teresa - at any cost.
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Author: Celeste Ng
Author Celeste Ng
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Duration 10h 8m
Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt, and Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to hold someone accountable. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who may b...
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Author: Cecelia Ahern
Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Amy Huberman
Duration 9h 52m
When Holly Kennedy is approached by a group calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, her safe existence is turned on its head. Inspired by hearing about her late husband Gerry's letters, the club wants Holly to help them with their own parting messages for their loved ones to discover after they're gone. Holly is sure of one thing: no way is she...
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Author: Penelope Lively
Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Rosalind Adams
Duration 4h 35m
James and his family move into an old English cottage deep in the countryside. What they don't realise is that they're sharing their home with the ghost of 17th century sorcerer Thomas Kempe! The ghost decides he wants James as his sorcerer's apprentice, and suddenly the house is filled with chaos. Will anyone believe James when he tells them that...
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Summer At the Comfort Food Cafe
Author: Debbie Johnson
Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Dawn Murphy
Duration 9h 50m
The Comfort Food Cafe is perched on a windswept clifftop at what feels like the edge of the world, serving up the most delicious cream teas, beautifully baked breads and carefully crafted cupcakes. For tourists and locals alike, the ramshackle cafe overlooking the beach is a beacon of laughter, companionship and security - a place like no other, a...
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Author: Douglas Stuart
Author Douglas Stuart
Narrator Angus King
Duration 17h 41m
This is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie'...
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Author: Penelope Lively
Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Nicolette Mckenzie
Duration 8h 21m
Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world...and in the process, my own'. And it is her story, from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others, and she must allow...
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Author: Penelope Lively
Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Sian Phillips
Duration 4h 40m
Maria comes to spend the summer holidays with her family in Lyme Regis. She finds a sampler stitched by a girl, Harriet, in 1865 and it becomes clear that something odd happened to Harriet - but what?
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Author: Penelope Lively
Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Sheila Mitchell
Duration 8h 10m
In this piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if some outcomes had been otherwise?' What if her family's flight from Egypt in 1942 had taken a different route? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was eighteen? If she had married someone else? If she had become an archaeol...
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