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Hester

By: Margaret Oliphant
Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
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Hester (1883) is a dramatic story of female power and family tensions within Victorian society. Using her own money, Catherine Vernon manages to save the family bank from collapse after her cousin John absconds with some of its money. As the matriarch of Redborough, Catherine is used to commanding authority, but this is challenged with the arrival of John’s strong and capable teenage daughter, Hester. Ignorant of her father’s conduct, Hester takes against Catherine and a mutual antipathy soon sets in. A masterpiece of domestic realism, the novel is one of Mrs Oliphant’s most admired works.

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©2023 Margaret Oliphant (P)2023 Naxos AudioBooks UK Ltd. Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature

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Beautifully read, historically enlightening and totally immersing story highlighting contrasts of women a man’s world

Vivid & Immersive

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There are several audible narrators whose readings I find impossible to listen to – usually because they pause mid sentence. This woman is terrific: I am awed at the number of different voices she has at her command. I shall be looking up her other readings.

Margaret Oliphant is a strangely neglected 19th century writer; I think Hester is her best book. It has four outstandingly interesting female characters and builds, as the best Victorian novels do, to an incredibly tense climax. (Why has television not discovered her?)

Outstandingly good narrator

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