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Chivers Audio - BBC Audio Books
New Titles
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August 2006
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Frances Fyfield
Safer Than Houses
Sarah Fortune's surname has become very apt - an ex-lover has bequeathed her a flat in London's Fitzrovia. Here she lives alone, unfettered by her past career as a lawyer, unfazed by her current arrangements as a part-time mistress to a select team of men. She isn't even worried by the threatening letters from her benefactor's son, demanding she give the flat to him or suffer a sinister, unspecified `accident'. Henry Brett, meanwhile, leads a timid life just a mile away from Sarah, and after she befriends him, a series of events begin which encompass arson - and murder.
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Eva Rice
The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets
Set in the 1950s, in an England still recovering from the Second World War, this is the enchanting story of Penelope Wallace and her eccentric family at the start of the rock 'n' roll era. Penelope longs to be grownup and to fall in love, but various rather inconvenient things keep getting in her way. Like her mother, a stunning but petulant beauty widowed at a tragically early age; her younger brother Inigo, currently incapable of concentrating on anything that isn't Elvis Presley; a vast but crumbling ancestral home; a severe shortage of cash, and her best friend Charlotte's sardonic cousin Harry. Eva Rice's novel is an utterly engrossing listen, in the tradition of Nancy Mitford and I Capture the Castle.
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Jane Elizabeth Varley
Wives and Lovers
Victoria Stratford's birthday party for her husband David is a resounding success. It shows off their beautiful Wimbledon house, their wonderful children, their perfect lives. It also conceals the tensions and ambitions that infest their marriage. Victoria graciously welcomes her guests, and the only person missing is David himself. Victoria's sister, Clara, and her husband, Tom, are there, yet Clara yearns for something that Tom cannot see. The youngest sister, Annie, is with her husband, Hugo. They are very content, the only blight being Hugo's mother. This one evening begins a train of events that will lead each sister down a different path - towards love, sex, grief, betrayal and happiness - and each will learn what it is to be a sister, a wife and a lover.
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