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The Shell Seekers

By: Rosamunde Pilcher
Narrated by: Hayley Atwell
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For the first time in unabridged audio download comes Rosamunde Pilcher's phenomenal, heart-warming bestseller, read by Hayley Atwell.

Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are.

Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. And when she discovers that her most treasured possession, her father's painting, The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart.

©1987 Rosamunde Pilcher (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Heartfelt Feel-Good
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I love this book and having it read toe was blissful.
my only complaint is despite the (American) narrator's very good English accent her inability to pronounce some words correctly was irksome to say the least!

A lovely story,lovingly read

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This book was a delight, although a long listen I found myself captivated by the well written characters and couldn't wait for the next instalment. The narrator, Hayley Atwell is very easy to listen to. I will be putting more Rosamunde Pilcher books on my wish list.

A delightful treasure

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Brilliant .The best audiobook I have listened to. I vaguely remembered reading the book many years ago and to hear it again with Hayley Atwell reading it was sheer pleasure.

The shell Seekers

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It must be 20 years since I last read this novel. It is still a lovely story, but starting to show its age I think. There were parts where the improbability and tweeness, became almost too much, but overall it’s quite enchanting.
However, I have no idea why the narrator was selected for the job. As a fairly well-known actress it can’t have been for economic reasons, but her voice is completely wrong for the eras this book covers and her mispronunciation of so many words was infuriating. I can only believe the producers never listen or edit anything once it’s been recorded. Such a disappointment for such a classic.

Let down by the narrator

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absolutely delightful ,wonderful story and very true to life how you can love your children, but not necessarily like them.

one of my all time favourites

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