Nicolette McKenzie has narrated 45 audiobooks on Listento.it by 27 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 274 ratings. The most-rated is The Butterfly Room.
Elm Tree Road
Summary
After being driven from home by their brutal father, the Willett sisters find themselves facing greater heartache in the wider world. Nell, the middle daughter, has left home to be with her lover, Cliff, fearing what reprisals might come from marrying against her father’s wishes. The couple head for Lancashire, but Nell’s happiness is short-lived. A gypsy palm-reader tells her she will still find her destiny, under ‘three big trees on a hill’ and her luck does seem to change when she meets Gil, and farmer and a gentleman who she can’t help but feel drawn to. Could the trees on his land be a sign, or will Nell be too damaged by her past to let herself love again?
©2011 Anna Jacobs (P)2011 Soundings
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
Summary
"One adorably British odd couple.... Charming." (People) “An exquisitely poignant tale of life, friendship and facing death...heart-breaking yet ultimately uplifting.... Everyone should read this book.” (Ruth Hogan, author of Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel) Infused with the emotional power of Me Before You and the irresistible charm of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Be Frank with Me, a moving and joyous novel about an elderly woman ready to embrace death and the little girl who reminds her what it means to live. It's never too late to start living. Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world - all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At 85, she isn’t going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets 10-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone to set her affairs in order. Instead, she finds herself embarking on a series of adventures with the irrepressible Rose and their affable neighbor, the recently widowed Stanley - afternoon tea, shopping sprees, trips to the beach, birthday celebrations, pizza parties. While the trio of unlikely BFFs grow closer and anxiously await the arrival of Rose’s new baby sister, Eudora is reminded of her own childhood - of losing her father during World War II and the devastating impact it had on her entire family. In reflecting on her past, Eudora realizes she must come to terms with what lies ahead. But now that her joy for life has been rekindled, how can she possibly say good-bye?
©2020 Annie Lyons (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
Farewell to Lancashire
Summary
Saga storytelling at its finest for all Catherine Cookson fans. Cassandra Blake has raised her three motherless sisters. The girls are the pride of their book-loving, impractical father, and not in a hurry to marry. Then the American Civil War cuts off supplies of cotton to Lancashire, the mills fall silent and there is no work. There is a stark choice: stay and risk starvation or pack up and begin again elsewhere. Cassandra has fallen in love with Reece Gregory, but he can't support a wife. When he's given the chance to start a new life in Western Australia, he seizes the opportunity, promising to send for her. Then an old feud tears the family apart. Cassandra is kidnapped and her sisters are forced to sail with a group of desperate cotton lasses to Fremantle. Penniless and alone, Cassandra is determined to find them again - but when she is offered a way, there is a painful price to pay.
©2019 Anna Jacobs (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Daughters of the Grail
Summary
Thirteenth-century France: Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. But the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to destroy Bridget for using her healing talents and supernatural abilities. Her duty to continue the bloodline leads her into the arms of Raoul de Mountvallant – a Catholic. But when the Church’s savage religious intolerance causes Raoul to turn rebel, a terrible vengeance is exacted. As war rages on, it is the children of these passionate souls, Magda and Dominic, who must strive to preserve the ancient knowledge for future generations….
©1983 Elizabeth Chadwick (P)2011 Soundings
Destiny's Path
Summary
The final part of the Blake sisters saga set in Lancashire and Western Australia in the 1860s, following on from Farewell to Lancashire and Beyond the Sunset. Fate can take you to places beyond your dreams.... 1866. Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony and two are quite happy to forge new lives for themselves there. The third, Xanthe, yearns to see the world. But even if she could afford to travel, could she persuade her beloved twin to let her go? Maia has fallen in love with their employer, and would surely be happiest staying behind with him. Xanthe's opportunity comes in the form of a handsome Irishman bringing some of the sisters' inheritance from England. But for Maia, the same man brings trouble in his wake: someone who has the power to make her life a misery. Can both sisters find the courage to finally find a home to call their own?
©2019 Anna Jacobs (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd