Echoes of the Dance

The Golden Cup

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By June Barrie
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Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannions: paradise, the house at the head of a sheltered Cornish valley where Mrs Trevannion lives, surrounded by her family. Frail and elderly, Honor Trevannion, bedridden following a nasty fall, is inexplicably anxious and distressed by the arrival of a young American bearing an old black and white photograph of a double wedding and looking for a long-lost relation.

The Birdcage

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By June Barrie

It was Felix who named it The Birdcage, the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant, the beautiful and talented actress Angel, and Angel's daughter, Lizzie. It was Felix whom they all adored and who was so in love with Angel, but while Lizzie longed for a father, Felix had other commitments: to his insecure, possessive wife Marina and to their son Piers, both living at beautiful, mellow Michaelgarth, the family home on the edge of Exmoor.

Out of Practice: The Larkford Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Penny Parkes
• Narrated By Anna Bentinck
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Out of Practice is based around a large country medical practice, which proves to be a hotbed of rivalry, resentment and romance - and that's just the doctors. Think James Herriot meets House.

The Children's Hour

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By June Barrie

In the big old house overlooking the sea, five small children listened as their mother read them a story. Theirs was an idyllic childhood, as they played on the beach, in the gardens and the woods, before the war and other tragedies disrupted their lives. Now, many years later, Nest and Mina still live at their beautiful childhood home, surrounded by the glorious Devon country side. But, when their sister Georgie comes to stay at Ottercombe, memories of their past start to revisit them.

Memories of the Storm

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By June Barrie
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Clio is staying with her aunt, Hester, at Bridge House on the edge of Exmoor. A beautiful house, it is the scene of many happy childhood memories. But Clio has no idea that it was the setting for a terrible incident after the Second World War.

Indian Summer

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By Deidre Rubenstein

Sweeping powers of description transport her listeners to another time and place. Rosanna Ley, author of best-selling The Villa and Return to Mandalay. Some memories can be forgotten.... Others won't ever go away. For renowned actor Sir Mungo, his quiet home village in Devon provides the perfect retreat. Close by are his brother and his wife, and the rural location makes his home the ideal getaway for his old friends in London.

The Secret of Orchard Cottage

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Alex Brown
• Narrated By Gabrielle Glaister
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The wonderful new novel from Alex Brown, best-selling author of The Great Christmas Knit Off, perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley and Jill Mansell. April Wilson is wondering what to do next - her life has been turned upside down after the loss of her husband so she's hoping to piece herself together again with a visit to her elderly great aunt, Edith. Arriving in the rural idyll of Tindledale, she's dismayed to find Edith's cottage and the orchards surrounding it in a sorry state of disrepair.

Summer on the River

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By Deidre Rubenstein

Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river. The terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls. The scent of lavender at the end of a hot day. It was a family house. As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together.

The Sea Garden

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By Phyllida Nash
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Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate, who gladly welcomes her into her home. Jess's own family fell apart several years ago, so she is grateful for Kate's friendliness - and her close unit of extended family and friends, who embrace Jess just as warmly. As this group begins reminiscing on their pasts and sharing their stories with Jess, it becomes apparent that her family history may be linked with theirs.

The Way We Were

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By June Barrie
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It was in the middle of a snowstorm when Tiggy arrived at the remote house on Bodmin Moor. She was alone, her partner tragically dead in an accident, and Julia, her dearest friend, welcomed her into her warm and chaotic family.

The Prodigal Wife

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By June Barrie

The Keep that beautiful, ancient family home where the Chadwick family had lived for generations is still a haven from the heartbreaks and storms of life. Jolyon Chadwick, a famous television presenter, takes his new girlfriend Henrietta home to meet his extended family and also to meet Marie, the mother who deserted him and his father many years ago, now reappeared and seeming to want forgiveness. Jolyon, however, is not in the mood for forgiveness.

The Christmas Angel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By Phyllida Nash
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As Christmas approaches, everything seems to be falling into place for Dossie. Her son Clem and his adorable five-year-old son Jakey have moved to Cornwall to be closer to her. She runs her own successful catering business. All she needs now is for the run of bad luck in her romantic life to end.Forming a slightly unconventional family setup with Dossie are the jovial nuns of the local convent and the wonderfully eccentric Janna.

Cousin Kate

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Georgette Heyer
• Narrated By Jilly Bond
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When young and beautiful governess Kate Malvern finds herself unemployed, she is taken in by Minerva Broome, the aunt she has never met, and whisked away to the majestic country home of Staplewood. However, things are not as they seem: strange things start to happen in the manor and Staplewood soon turns from an inviting stately house to a cold and gloomy mansion with a dreadful secret!

The Summer House

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By June Barrie

Matt's mother kept all his childhood memories in a small box, amongst the many photos of Matt as a child. But something about those photos has always puzzled Matt. Is that really him? Why does he not remember those clothes and toys? And where, in the photos, is his sister Imogen? Imogen, meanwhile, is living with her husband and their baby in a rented cottage.

Amy Wingate's Journal

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By Phyllida Nash

When Amy consults her doctor about her increasing mood swings, she is advised to keep a diary as an outlet for her bursts of irritation. And her life obligingly becomes eventful enough to provide interesting reading. But it is the tantalising allusions to Amy's past - so at odds with her appearance as the stereotypical retired schoolmistress - that intrigues, delights, and eventually reveals a woman of surprising qualities.

Postcards from the Past

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By Phyllida Nash

Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. Their lives are uncomplicated. With family and friends nearby and their free-and-easy living arrangements, life seems as content as can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years?

The Quick and the Dead

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By June Barrie

Clarissa really falls in love with the house - a beautiful Tudor manor in the Welsh Marches - and marrying Thomas is simply the best way to get it. But life there isn't quite the idyll she expects. Thomas is so busy with the farm that he doesn't see the need for a social life, and his two elderly, eccentric aunts - though charming - aren't the most stimulating companions. When Evan appears on the scene, Clarissa is ripe for a little diversion. But the complications that ensue demand Welsh magic to unravel them.

Black Sheep

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Georgette Heyer
• Narrated By Barbara Leigh-Hunt
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He had nothing to recommend him but his smile, and she was surely too old, and had too much commonsense, to be beguiled by a smile... Miss Abigail Wendover's efforts to detach her spirited niece Fanny from a plausible fortune-hunter are complicated by the arrival in Bath of Miles Caverleigh. The black sheep of his family, a cynical, outrageous care-for-naught with a scandalous past - that would be a connection more shocking even than Fanny's unwise liaison with his nephew!

The Talisman Ring

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Georgette Heyer
• Narrated By Phyllida Nash
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The legend of the Headless Horseman and a proposed marriage de convenance both have their impact on the mystery of a golden talisman ring and Lord Lavenham's young heir, Ludovic. Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the slightest inclination to marry one another, yet it is Lord Lavenham's dying wish. For there is no one else to provide for the old man's granddaughter while Ludovic remains a fugitive from justice...

The Little Flower Shop by the Sea

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Ali McNamara
• Narrated By Emma Powell
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The blossom is out in the little Cornish harbour town of St Felix. But Poppy Carmichael's spirits aren't lifted by the pretty West Country spring. Inheriting her grandmother's flower shop has forced her to return to Cornwall, a place that holds too many memories. Poppy is determined to do her best for the sake of her adored grandmother, but she struggles with the responsibility of the more-shabby-than-chic shop.

Sprig Muslin

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Georgette Heyer
• Narrated By Sian Phillips
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Finding so young and pretty a girl as Amanda wandering unattended, Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty as a man of honour to restore her to her family.

But it is to prove no easy task for the Corinthian. His captive in sprig muslin has more than her rapturous good looks and bandboxes to aid her - she is also possessed of a runaway imagination...

The Cornish House

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Liz Fenwick
• Narrated By Anne Dover
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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....

Regency Buck

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Georgette Heyer
• Narrated By June Barrie
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It is in regrettable circumstances that beautiful Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine first meet Julian St John Audley. The man, they both agree, is an insufferably arrogant dandy. But unfortunately for them, he's also the Fifth Earl of Worth, a friend of the Regent and, their legal guardian.

Sisters Under the Skin

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Marcia Willett
• Narrated By Rowena Cooper

Stepsisters Olivia and Emily are at daggers drawn until the arrival of their half-sister, Rosie, when they unite in their hatred of the newcomer. Rosie can look after herself, though, and cunningly throws secret spanners in the works for her sisters.