Never the Bride cover art

Never the Bride

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Never the Bride

By: Paul Magrs
Narrated by: Joanna Tope
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

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

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Brenda has had a long and eventful life, and she has come to Whitby to run a B&B in search of some peace and quiet. She and her best friend, Effie, like nothing better than going out for tea and keeping their eyes open for any of the mysterious goings on in town.

But the oddest thing in Whitby may well be Brenda herself. With her terrible scars, her strange lack of a surname, or the fact that she takes two different shoe sizes, Brenda should have known that people, well, unique as she is, just aren’t destined for a quiet life.

©2006 Paul Magrs (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Baker's End: Tatty Bogle cover art
Baker's End: The King of Cats cover art
Baker's End: Gobbleknoll Hall cover art
It's Haunted, They Said cover art
All the Murmuring Bones cover art
A Man Lay Dead cover art
Trouble in Mudbug cover art
Who Sent Clement? cover art
The Night Raven cover art
The Secrets of the Drearcliff Grange School cover art
The Scarifyers: The Nazad Conspiracy cover art
The Black Mountains cover art
The Wonkiest Witch cover art
Smouldering Fire cover art
Say It With Poison, Mitchell and Markby Village, Book 1 cover art
This Is Midnight: Stories cover art
All stars
Most relevant
I just listened to this in its entirety on my last day of holiday in Whitby and on my train journey home. It’s perfect. I need more.

Charming gothic mystery adventure in Whitby

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This story was so much fun. Brenda and Effie gadding about Whitby solving mysteries kept me thoroughly occupied. I absolutely loved Joanna Topes performance too. She really brought life to all the characters, making each distinct and engaging. I highly recommend this story and will definitely be listening to more in the series

A raucous affair

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As a woman in her 50s, I'm drawn to books with older protagonists. I loved Brenda and Effie, although their journey in this book didn't take the direction I was expecting, I enjoyed each encounter and predicament they found themselves in.

Both Paul Magrs and Joanna Tope are new-to-me. Paul's skills as a writer drew me into this story. Joanna's performance as narrator brought it alive.

My only complaint is the ending. It's very abrupt and felt jarring. But I enjoyed this audiobook and will look out for more in the series.

An unexpected tale with unique consequences.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I wanted some middle aged to elderly female protanganists, and something that had a happy feel good factor. This was it! fantastical, sweet, funny and leaves you feel happy but keen to know what's next. The narrator was superb and I'm my opinion, one of the best I've ever heard!

just wonderfully different.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Enjoyable and good natured romp, d efinitely looking for sequels to this. The reader is excellent!

Enjoyable and good natured romp

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews