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Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 1
- Narrator
- Harriet Walter
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 30 November 2020
- Run Time
- 4 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Narrated by Harriet Walter, a popular British actress whose movie and tv credits include Atonement, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Netflix’s The Crown.
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- Author
- Edith Wharton, Charlotte Mew, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Ann Lamb, Mary Braddon, Charlotte Perkins Gilmore, William J. Locke
- Narrator
- Harriet Walter
- Duration
- 4 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 November 2020
- ISBN
- 9781907416057
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
This selection of stories relates the many experiences and complexities of womanhood; sometimes joyful, sometimes sad but always enriching. With stories by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Gaskell – it includes Ladies in Lavender by William J. Locke, the inspiration for the film of the same name starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Narrated by Harriet Walter, a popular British actress whose movie and tv credits include Atonement, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Netflix’s The Crown.
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