Folly cover art

Folly

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Folly

By: Alan Titchmarsh
Narrated by: Alan Titchmarsh
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

About this listen

Alan Titchmarsh reads his most ambitious novel to date. A multi-generational story of intrigue, rivalry and romance between two families auction houses in Bath.

For three generations the family-run auction houses of the Dashwoods and the Kings have been fierce rivals. The grandparents Henry Dashwood and Edward King were once best friends, despite their different backgrounds.

Best friends until they fell for the same girl Eleanor Faraday eventually picked Henry but the seeds had been sown for a bitter feud that flourished between the two clans for over six decades.

But as both firms prepare to celebrate their half century, two of the grandchildren, Jamie Dashwood and Artemis King, decide it’s time to bury the hatchet and arrange a shared party to which both families are invited. Things don’t go according to plan though and revelations at the party rock the foundations of both families as a web of deceit and intrigue, forgery and fraud are ruinously exposed.

Jamie and Artemis uncover secrets that were better left undisturbed, but their discovery brings them closer together and they find themselves falling in love. Will their love be strong enough to survive the scandal they have unwittingly revealed?

©2008 Alan Titchmarsh (P)2008 Hodder & Stoughton Contemporary Contemporary Romance Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Fiction
All stars
Most relevant
I thought this audible was wonderful, sublime, glorious and sad all wrapped up in one!!

A hug 🤗

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Alan always writes well. this was a good story which j enjoyed listening to

enjoyable story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Set in two time scales, Folly was fairly easy to follow although it did jump about a lot and I would have liked each bit to be developed more before
jumping time frames again, but I think this was due to the abridgement.
Even so, things I liked about Folly; it was a 'page turner', I liked that quality to it. The insights into the art world and art dealing (and even fiddling) were entertaining. It had some humour in it as well. Also the main characters were likeable. And although I thought the final twist let it down, I like a happy ending and this did have one!

An Entertaining 'Page Turner'

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Another fine story from Alan Titchmarsh. A bit shorter than usual but most entertaining. I enjoyed it.

A bit short but excellent.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.