Author:
Brian John

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Learn moreIt is 1845, and Martha Morgan, Mistress of Plas Ingli, is feeling her age. She receives warnings that she should 'take care'. Her beloved estate collapses, and she has to call upon her deepest reserves of strength in order to survive. But her misery is lessened when she meets a travelling evangelist on the summit of Angel Mountain. It turns out that the fate of Amos Jones Minor Prophet is inextricably bound up with her own. A single indiscretion in Tycanol Wood splits the community and tests the loyalty of friends and family to the limit, and starts a drift towards the final tragic episodes of Marthaโs life.
While Martha is dealing with these personal crises, she is also drawn to help the peasants caught up in the Irish Potato Famine. A shipwreck on the coast near Newport gives her the opportunity to do something practical, but in the process she offends the secret Society of Sea Serjeants. Her family tries to protect her from evil men who are driven by ancient family animosities. But her fighting spirit is stronger than her body, and she takes them on. It becomes clear that Martha will not die in her bed; nor does she, but in the final act of her exciting life there are breathless twists and turns which confound her enemies and leave her undefeated.
Brian John was born in Carmarthen in 1940 and brought up in Pembrokeshire. He is married and has two grown up sons and two grandsons. He studied at Haverfordwest Grammar School and at Jesus College Oxford, where he read Geography, had a lot of fun and obtained his D Phil degree for a pioneering study of the Ice Age in Pembrokeshire. When he was a student he led two University expeditions, to Iceland and Greenland, and thinks it is a minor miracle that he survived. He then worked as a field scientist in Antarctica and spent 11 years as a Geography Lecturer in Durham University. He has travelled widely, mostly in cold places. In 1977 he and his family moved to a smallholding near Newport in Pembrokeshire, and since then he has made his living as a writer and publisher. He is also actively involved in environmental and community organisations.
Janine has been working as a voiceover artist for 15+ years for radio stations and production companies in the UK, Europe and beyond. As well as her extensive TV and radio advertising work, Janine also regularly voices training modules, corporates and 'explainers' for a number of organisations across the public and private sector. Sheโs hugely adaptable, enjoying the challenge of each and every project that comes her way.
Malk Williams is an accomplished voiceover artist and audiobook narrator with many years of experience in storytelling, public speaking and performance. Malk has many years of experience telling and listening to stories during which, he has recorded over 50 audiobooks. He has a versatile voice, a good ear for accents and can deliver reads that range from warm and friendly, through to precise and formal, right down to guttural spine-tingling.
Audiobook details
Narrators:
Janine Cooper Marshall & Malk Williams
ISBN:
9781867516958
Length:
19 hours 56 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Publication date:
February 1, 2021
Edition:
Unabridged