AuthorPenelope Lively
NarratorFrances Tomelty
Duration4h 6m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS3
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
'I don't know that you have done anything wrong,' Miss Hepplewhite said. 'But it is possible that you have done something rather dangerous.' William and Susie thought they were just playing a game when they cooked a witch's brew in the old barn and said a spell over it, but Martha was not so sure. And indeed, the three friends soon learn that they have called up something dark and evil out of the distant past...
Author: Penelope Lively
Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 8h 35m
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 absor...
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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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Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 8h 33m
Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination...A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award,republished in the Collins Modern Classics range.Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't ther...
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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 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
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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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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