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The Cornish House
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
When artist Maddie inherits a house in Cornwall shortly after the death of her husband, she hopes it will be the fresh start she and her step-daughter, Hannah, desperately need. Trevenen is beautiful but neglected, a rambling house steeped in history. Maddie is enchanted by it and determined to learn as much as she can about its past. As she discovers the stories of generations of women who've lived there before, Maddie begins to feel her life is somehow intertwined within its walls.
But Maddie's dream of a calm life in the countryside is far from the reality she faces. Still struggling with her grief and battling with Hannah, Maddie is unable to find inspiration for her painting and realises she may face the prospect of having to sell Trevenen, just as she is coming to love it. And as Maddie and Hannah pull at the seams of Trevenen's past, the house reveals secrets that have lain hidden for generations. This gorgeously sweeping debut from Liz Fenwick is touched with romance and mystery, a perfect summer listen.
Read by Anne Dover. Anne Dover has recorded many audiobooks as well as appearing in TV and radio commercials and listeners in the northeast will remember her Saturday night record show for Metro Radio in the late 1970s. Her TV appearances include Emmerdale Farm, Book Tower, Brideshead Revisited and A Kind of Loving.
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- mrs s curtis
- 25-06-15
Good book,
I loved the book but some of the voices were annoying but that said it was very enjoyable.
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- Suzanne
- 08-07-13
Great read
I really enjoyed this book. The story was really interesting, very descriptive so I felt I was really there. The story was good and interesting. Very well read as well.
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- Robina W.
- 03-12-14
Enjoyable but not as mysterious as I thought
If you could sum up The Cornish House in three words, what would they be?
Enjoyable and cosy
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Her teenage step daughter was recognizably portrayed as a 'typical stroppy teenager'.
Can't say which was least interesting, there were so many threads to the story, perhaps one or two could have been explored in greater depth and some of the others discarded.
Which character – as performed by Anne Dover – was your favourite?
Perhaps the elderly teacher who befriended her step daughter.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I enjoyed the book it had the feelgood factor.
Any additional comments?
Just that there were so many subplots which could have been explored, it was almost as though the book was a summary of several storylines.
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- Amanda
- 26-04-14
Predictable
This is a tale of an unbelievably tolerant and forgiving woman and is totally predicatable. This didn't stop me enjoying the book as an escape to another place on a long and boring car journey, but with an unbelievably stupid and niaive main character it was never going to reach the heights of a great read!
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- Gillian Beardmore
- 16-02-22
Relationships that find healing
Well written evocative of a journey to find the a location of a home where broken people find sanctuary in an old Cornish house with a history of its own
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- Tibby
- 25-06-19
An interesting story
This story was very interesting but I preferred to read it myself as Hannah's swearing appeared far more harsh when read to me so I cringed each time I heard her. Reading the story myself meant that although I found the language difficult it was easier to dismiss it.
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- Paws2read
- 10-10-18
Just one thing spoiled this !
Great story that really drew me in and had me intrigued on the different characters outcome and what would happen to them but the single one problem I had the whole way through this audiobook was the two main characters names. The elder character is called Maddie and the young teenage girl Hannah. To me they should have been named the other way around I constantly had to keep remembering which one was which ! It was mainly the name Maddie - I found myself having to tell myself she’s not the young one! Bad choice of names but a great story and the narrator’s voice grew on menn
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- Welshlad
- 14-05-14
Lovely Story
Where does The Cornish House rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
My wife really enjoyed this, she hadn't read anything by Liz Fenwick before but from the beginning she knew she was going to enjoy it. The narrator was very easy on the ears! It was a book she could listen to in sections while busy doing other things, i.e. cooking, sewing etc.
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- Anne-Louise
- 02-10-15
Excellent entertainment
The characters were very believable and they developed well and interestingly. Anne Dover gave them a good range of voices and her narration was pleasant. I might have given her 4 1/2 stars if the option was available because she occasionally lost her character's voice for a moment, but this was but a small inconvenience. A great story about complicated family relationships. It was difficult to put down. There was humour and optimism, sadness, doubt, anger - the characters were sympathetic bar one who who gave everyone the run around for a while - I don't want to spoil the story by giving away the end !
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- Pippa
- 13-04-15
I love this book
I love this book, I have re listened to it several times particularly when I have felt stressed. It is a gentle, undemanding story and very well narrated.
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