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Author: Gower Imogen Hermes
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Author Gower Imogen Hermes
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 17h 28m
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see Mr Hancock's marvel. Its arrival spins him...
View BookAuthor: Jennie Rooney
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Author Jennie Rooney
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 14h 11m
Joan Stanley has a secret. She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world. Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and ide...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
SeriesChocolat Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 15h 47m
Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop.Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door.The wind has stopped - at least for a while.Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the l...
View BookAuthor: Diane Setterfield
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Author Diane Setterfield
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 16h 34m
A dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the Thames. The regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open on an injured stranger. In his arms is the drowned corpse of a little child. Hours later the dead girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can it be explained by...
View BookAuthor: Sonia Purnell
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Author Sonia Purnell
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 13h 55m
The incredible true and untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo's most wanted Allied spy, by acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell. The remarkable double life of an American-turned-British spy, Virginia Hall, a 'bolshie' woman from Maryland who, determined to...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 7h 39m
Just before the First World War, the Ramsay family go to their holiday home in the Hebrides, bringing several guests with them. While they are there, one of the children wants to visit a lighthouse. After a ten year gap, during which the war wreaks its havoc on Europe, one of the guests returns to the house; and another trip to the lighthouse is pr...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h 43m
When Mrs Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex, she takes her three daughters to live in a modest cottage in Devon. For Elinor, the eldest daughter, the move means a painful separation from the man she loves, but her sister Marianne finds in Devon the romance and excitement which she longs for. The c...
View BookAuthor: Leo Tolstoy
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Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 38h
The aristocratic Anna Karenina is a sophisticated woman who seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. Yet she becomes increasingly aware of the emptiness of her life and exchanges her privilaged existence as the wife of Karenin for a passionate affair with the impetuous Count Vronsky - with tragic consequences.
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 15m
Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy and discovering a country very different to the English countryside she was brought up in. Torn between two lovers, she has to make a decision that will transform her from a girl to a woman. A talented pianist with a good...
View BookAuthor: Louise Doughty
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Author Louise Doughty
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 14h
Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at the Houses of Parliament and, on impulse, begins a passionate affair with him - a decision that will put everything sh...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 7h 6m
Clarissa Dalloway is civilised - without the ostentation of a socialite, but with enough distinction to attract them to her parties. She finds excess offensive, but surrounds herself with the highest quality and has an abhorrence for anything ugly or awkward. We spend a day with Clarissa as she interacts with servants, her children, her husband, an...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h
Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. T...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Levy
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Author Deborah Levy
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 3h 13m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together...' Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know left off, this short, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
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Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 3h
Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail, the safest place for her to be is inside the covers of a book. But changes are af...
View BookAuthor: Doris Lessing
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Author Doris Lessing
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 29h 46m
In London in the 1950s, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook-the golden notebook -that finally pul...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 18h 30m
This is one of the earliest novels of British industrial alienation, tellingly linked to the plight of 19th-century women. It tells of the relationship between Margaret Hale, a girl from the old rural south, and John Thornton, a mill owner from the new industrial north.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 2m
Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute essay, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Sh...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 15h 50m
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naive young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. Told in symbolic, lyrical and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to...
View BookAuthor: Henrik Ibsen
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Author Henrik Ibsen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 2h 10m
Hedda Gabler, a deceased General's daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of tedium ahead. Increasingly she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack. Then a former flame arrives to rival her husband for an academic post. Stars Juliet Stevenson as the passionate Hedda.
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Author Elizabeth Jane Howard
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 13h 30m
On the eve of an unusual voyage, a young woman reviews her life. Her story begins with a 'beautiful visit' to friends in the country which serves as an awakening experience. What follows is an account of her struggle to retain the mood of her visit.
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