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Looking for the Durrells Audiobook Summary

At 33, after a year that has seen her break off her engagement to Bruce, her long-time boyfriend, and then the loss of her beloved father to cancer, Penny takes time off from her career as a children’s book illustrator to nurse her broken heart and loneliness. She flies out alone to Corfu to begin a month-long pilgrimage – planning to explore the island through the eyes of The Durrells, a curiosity she’s had about the whimsical family life on Corfu in the 1930s.

When she arrives, she is unexpectedly drawn into the secrets of the several strangers she meets.

With secrets and pasts only she can reconcile and secrets that pull her into the world of those who live and work around the Athena restaurant in the coastal village of St George South, Penny must reevaluate her own secrets. There’s Tess, the attractive, seemingly tireless widow who runs the place, to Alex, her little boy who lives for his animals and struggles to remember the face of the father he has lost. There are Guy and Rich, the seemingly carefree holiday reps, to Dimitris, the successful lawyer, now fisherman, who returned to his island and boat a decade ago – and then Nic, the Professor who carries the burden of a love he can’t share or voice. And then Lily, the waitress looking for a new start, but fearing it too.

As they share their hopes and fears on a journey that runs parallel with Penny’s exploration of The Durrell’s story, their lives become entwined in a way none of them could have imagined or predicted.

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Looking for the Durrells Audiobook Narrator

Melanie Hewitt is the narrator of Looking for the Durrells audiobook that was written by Melanie Hewitt

After deciding she wanted to be a book illustrator, at 18, Melanie Hewitt went to Art College. Halfway through the year, she changed her mind and secured a place at Swansea University to study English. After 18 months, she moved on again to a college just outside her hometown of Doncaster and studied an eclectic mix of linguistics, sociology, and economics.


Then she saw a job advert for a reporter and took up the post at the Doncaster Advertiser, later became Editor, and then worked in PR. She now works in education as Communications Lead for the XP Schools Trust based in Yorkshire and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.


Looking for the Durrells is her first novel.

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Melanie Hewitt is the author of Looking for the Durrells

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Looking for the Durrells Full Details

Narrator Melanie Hewitt
Length 8 hours 7 minutes
Author Melanie Hewitt
Category
Publisher Harper Inspire
Release date August 03, 2021
ISBN 9780310130475

Subjects

The publisher of the Looking for the Durrells is Harper Inspire. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Christian, Collections & Anthologies, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the Looking for the Durrells is Harper Inspire. The imprint is Harper Inspire. It is supplied by Harper Inspire. The ISBN-13 is 9780310130475.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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