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The Fortnight in September

By: R. C. Sherriff
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
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The Fortnight in September chronicles one family’s seaside holiday. Though they visit every year, the joy of the familiar is not without its challenges. R. C. Sherriff's writing is full of minute detail, capturing the sounds, smells and sights of everyday life for ordinary people.

Every year the Stevens family pack their things and enjoy two weeks’ holiday in Bognor Regis. Their journey starts at home in Dulwich, where everyone takes pride in fine-tuning holiday preparations, from marshalling helpful neighbours to carefully boarding the emptiest train carriage.

The family always stay in “Seaview”, an increasingly shabby boarding house, complete with ageing landlady Mrs Huggett. Whilst Mr Stevens hopes nothing has changed, and his wife hides her fear of the sea, their two teenage children Dick and Mary steal away in search of adventure and romance.

The Fortnight in September is part of the Persephone Audiobook Collection, a series of forgotten classics including neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers. First published in 1931, this edition is prefaced by an extract from the author’s 1968 memoir, No Leading Lady.

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I really enjoyed this story and I would like to hear other books by this author. The narrator was perfect; he was at one with the story and switched effortlessly between the different accents and voices. The sound quality was also excellent – lovely and loud. The author gives you a real insight into the interior life of the characters which makes you love them. You feel as if you were in Bognor with them and you are sad when the holiday is over. This is the kind of audiobook that you can listen to over and over again.

Perfect narration of a lovely book

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It's a perfect distillation of a moment in time. Absorbing and compelling. Such a great narration too. It seems at times so long ago and alien and at times so perfectly relatable. I will revisit the book many times I think.

Perfection

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Too short an ending.would love a sequel. Great narrator. Absorbing story. Great glimpse of times gone by

The narrator

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I started this after abandoning a modern day detective story about the rape and murder of young children. I realised the content was too abhorrent to take in and why should I? This book was the antidote to that bad listening experience. It is sublimely written and read in a perfect pitch. I was transported to a time of different ways, standards and morals. The characters are very real and understandable and I missed them all as soon as I’d finished. I highly recommend it to anyone who would like a glimpse into the lives of a lower middle class family between the wars and get to know what makes them tick.

Brilliant narration

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It summed up the end of an era. It captured the feelings of the end of a holiday. No drama because life is largely without personal drama.

It's about life

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