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Author: Jane Gardam
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jane Gardam
Narrator June Barrie
Duration 8h 50m
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year. Eliza Peabody is a dangerous - if blameless - do-gooder. She is too enthusiastic and she talks too much. Her concern for the inhabitants of her south London road extends to annoying, albeit well-meaning, notes of unsolicited advice under their doors. One such note heralds Eliza's undoing and black comedy b...
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Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Kate Sachs
Duration 5h 21m
I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine. Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colors her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her-a confining world of wartime restrictions, Viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica has been told tha...
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Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Caroline John
Duration 5h
A collection of short stories, including the long, three-part story, 'Telegony', which is a depiction of three generations of women and the clash of two very different cultures, English and Italian. The collection includes two ghost stories, 'Dead Children' and 'The Meeting House'.
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Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 43m
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in l...
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Author Jane Gardam
Narrator June Barrie
Duration 10h 5m
Set during the aftermath of World War Two, this audiobook follows the lives of three maturing young women as they leave school and take up their scholarships at university.
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