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The Reading Party
- Author
- Fenella Gentleman
- Narrator
- Emma Fenney
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Publish Date
- 14 October 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Sarah Addleshaw – young, spirited and keen to prove her worth – begins term as the first female academic at her college. She is, in fact, its only female ‘Fellow’.
Impulsive love affairs – with people, places and the ideas in her head – beset Sarah throughout her first exhilarating year as a don, but it is the Reading Party that has the most dramatic impact.
Asked to accompany the first mixed group of students on the annual retreat in Cornwall, Sarah finds herself illicitly drawn to one of them, the suave American Tyler. Torn between professional integrity and personal feelings, she faces her biggest challenge to date.
A fresh view of Oxford, seen through the eyes of a young woman historian appointed to a male college in 1976, who tells her own story with wit and feeling in this original and charming novel.
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Details
- Author
- Fenella Gentleman
- Narrator
- Emma Fenney
- Duration
- 10 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 October 2021
- ISBN
- 9788728024607
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Genre
- Modern & contemporary fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Adult & contemporary romance, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Synopsis
It is the 1970s and Oxford’s male institutions are finally opening their doors to women.Sarah Addleshaw – young, spirited and keen to prove her worth – begins term as the first female academic at her college. She is, in fact, its only female ‘Fellow’.Impulsive love affairs – with people, places and the ideas in her head – beset Sarah throughout her first exhilarating year as a don, but it is the Reading Party that has the most dramatic impact.Asked to accompany the first mixed group of students on the annual retreat in Cornwall, Sarah finds herself illicitly drawn to one of them, the suave American Tyler. Torn between professional integrity and personal feelings, she faces her biggest challenge to date.A fresh view of Oxford, seen through the eyes of a young woman historian appointed to a male college in 1976, who tells her own story with wit and feeling in this original and charming novel.-
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