Audiobooks narrated by Anna Hope

"Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATION The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home – twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone – to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other. Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage. And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they’ve built their lives. 'Superb … Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama' Jonathan Coe ‘Beautiful . . . As provocative as it is tender’ Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace ‘The English country house novel reimagined for our times ... Exceptionally well-drawn’ Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground ‘A book that asks important questions about legacy – familial, historical and global – and which seeks to answer them with delicate insight and beautiful prose’ Elizabeth Day ‘Hauntingly beautiful . . . This is a novel I will return to again and again’ Louisa Adjoa Parker ‘Albion balances the reality of who the English were against the hope of who we might become’ Richard Beard, author of The Day That Went Missing © Anna Hope 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Anna Hope (Author), Anna Hope (Narrator)

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J.L. Carr: A Month in the Country and The Harpole Report: Two BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisations

"Two stunning dramatisations from one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors Sink into the lyrical landscapes and beautifully observed lives of J. L. Carr’s finest stories, brought to life in these glorious, full-cast dramatisations starring Shaun Dingwall (Noughts and Crosses, Top Boy) and Rupert Evans (Man in the High Castle, Bridgerton). This BBC Radio collection includes the Booker nominated, A Month in the Country. Be transported to the Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where, in the aftermath of the First World War, survivor Tom Birkin spends a summer uncovering a medieval mural in the local church. Birkin discovers treasures he thought the war had blown away forever. A tender and beautiful story about spirituality and healing in the aftermath of horror. The Harpole Report tells the humorous story of idealistic young teacher, George Harpole, who decides to shake things up when he becomes acting head of Tampling St Nicholas Primary School. There’s stiff resistance, improper suggestions and children running riot, but true romance may be just around the corner… J. L. Carr served in the RAF in WWII and after the war worked as a teacher, publisher and writer. His novel, A Month in the Country, won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was also turned into a film starring Colin Firth and Natasha Richardson. Since his death in 1994, Carr has become recognised as one of the great British writers; funny and heart-breaking in equal measure. Immerse yourself in this timeless and very English collection. Cast and credits Written by J. L. Carr A Month in the Country Adapted by Dave Sheasby Produced by David Hunter Birkin - Rupert Evans Alice - Hattie Morahan Keach - Stephen Critchlow Moon - Blake Ritson Kathy - Leah Brotherhead Station Master - Tony Bell First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 20 November 2010 The Harpole Report Dramatised by Jonathan Smith Directed and produced by Bruce Young George Harpole - Shaun Dingwall Emma Foxberrow - Hattie Morahan Mr Tusker - Christian Rodska Mr Theaker - Sam Dale Mrs Blossom - Lesley Nicol Mrs Rita Grindle-Jones - Jane Whittenshaw Mr James Pintle - David Holt Mrs Sue Byrd - Susie Riddell Other parts played by the cast First Broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12 March 2012 ©2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

J.L. Carr (Author), Anna Hope, Caitlin Mottram, Christian Rodska, Full Cast, Harriet Walter, Hattie Morahan, Jane Wittenshaw, Kate Eaton, Richard Hope, Rupert Evans, Shaun Dingwall, Stephen Critchlow (Narrator)

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The White Rock: From the bestselling author of The Ballroom

"In a spellbinding narrative of sacrifice and survival, chaos and connection, four characters are caught up in the tides of history over three centuries and drawn to the sacred White Rock of San Blas off the coast of Mexico. In 2020 an Englishwoman travels to give thanks for her child, a singer in 1969 runs from the law, from his rabid fans and an America burning with the fever of the Vietnam War, two Yoeme sisters are torn from their homeland at the start of the twentieth century, and in 1775 a Spanish Lieutenant prepares to set sail from the White Rock to continue the conquest of the Pacific coast. The White Rock is a breathtaking novel about what happens when the stories we have lived by can no longer keep us safe."

Anna Hope (Author), Anna Hope, Kyle Soller, Naomi Wirthner (Narrator)

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"Five Days in November, 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a job in the pensions office, and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to her door. He carries with him a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and will both mend and tear their hearts. A portrait of three intertwining lives caught at the faultline between empire and modernity, Wake captures the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of the nation changed for ever"

Anna Hope (Author), Anna Hope (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Anna Hope

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