Margery Sharp has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is The Nutmeg Tree.
Britannia Mews
Summary
Around the corner from the elegant townhouses on Albion Place is Britannia Mews, a squalid neighborhood where servants and coachmen live. In 1875, it's no place for a young girl of fine breeding, but independent-minded Adelaide Culver is fascinated by what goes on there. Years later, Adelaide shocks her family when she falls in love with an impoverished artist and moves into the mews. But violence shatters Adelaide's dreams. In a dangerous new world, she must fend for herself-until she meets a charismatic stranger and her life takes a turn she never expected. A novel about social manners and mores reminiscent of Edith Wharton, this story of love, family, and the price one must pay for throwing off the shackles of convention is also a witty and incisive dissection of the “upstairs, downstairs” English class system of the last two centuries.
©1946 Margery Sharp (P)2018 Tantor
Cluny Brown
Summary
Cluny Brown refuses to know her place in society. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. So, to teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised the orphaned girl since she was a baby, sends her into service as a parlor maid at one of England's stately manor houses. At Friars Carmel in Devonshire, Cluny meets her employers: Sir Henry, the quintessential country squire, and Lady Carmel, who oversees the management of her home with unruffled calm. Their son, Andrew, newly returned from abroad with a Polish emigre writer friend, is certain the country is once again on the brink of war. Then there's Andrew's beautiful fiancee and the priggish town pharmacist. While everyone around her struggles to keep pace with a rapidly changing world, Cluny continues to be Cluny, transforming those around her with her infectious zest for life.
©1944 Margery Sharp (P)2018 Tantor
Die vollkommene Lady
Summary
Julia Packett ist die Fröhlichkeit in Person. In London führt sie ein freies, ausgelassenes Leben, nur leise getrübt durch den einen oder anderen finanziellen Engpass. Als ihre Tochter sich nach Jahren wieder bei ihr meldet und sie um Beistand bei der Wahl ihres Ehemanns bittet, lässt Julia mit neu entflammtem Mutterherz alles stehen und liegen, um ihrer Tochter zu Hilfe zu eilen. Kaum in der Luxusvilla in der Haute-Savoie angekommen, begreift Julia jedoch, dass ihre Tochter sich in einen zur Ehe völlig ungeeigneten jungen Mann verliebt hat, denn er ist wie sie selbst, Julia: charmant, aber schwer zu domestizieren. Wie kann es Julia nur gelingen, ihrer Tochter den Verlobten auszureden, ohne ihren eigenen Status als vollkommene Lady zu gefährden? Die Anreise des vornehmen Sir William Waring kompliziert die Situation nur noch weiter. Und schon bald gerät ihr Plan, das Glück ihrer Tochter zu retten, hoffnungslos außer Kontrolle...
©2019 Julia Eisele Verlags GmbH, München. Übersetzung von Wibke Kuhn (P)2018 Julia Eisele Verlags GmbH, München. Alle Rechte vorbehalten
The Nutmeg Tree
Summary
Julia Packett has barely laid eyes on her daughter, Susan, since leaving her with her well-heeled in-laws following the loss of her husband in World War I. Now 37, Julia's lack of prospects hasn't dimmed her spirit or her appetite for life. But when Susan asks her to come to France for the summer to persuade her grandmother to allow her to marry, she sets sail with the noblest intentions of acting the paragon of motherhood. At her mother-in-law's vacation villa in Haute Savoie, however, Julia sees that her priggish but lovely daughter is completely mismatched with a man much more suited to herself: a charming, clever playboy. The arrival of Susan's legal guardian, the distinguished Sir William Waring, further complicates the situation. Soon, Julia's efforts to pass herself off as a lady and secure her daughter's happiness spin out of control, leading to romantic entanglements and madcap adventures that will challenge preconceived notions about the ultimate compatibility of any two people who fall in love.
©1937 Margery Sharp (P)2018 Tantor