Eleanor Morton
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1,691 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Eleanor Morton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Can I just read the short a short opening paragraph?
To set the scene, chapter one The Flight About seven o'clock one hot summer evening a strange family moved into the little village of Middlesex.
Nobody knew where they came from or who they were, but the neighbours soon made up their minds what they thought of the strangers, for the father was very drunk.
And that's the opening.
That's the
I thought it was going to be a lot darker from this opening.
There are four of them.
Who have we got?
We've got
I'd say he was the main character.
The Anne.
Anne, if you will.
Violet.
Good, because I hate to see a child.
I found him weirdly endearing, even though, yeah, a lot of the time in these books I find the very young children annoying.
So it's these four young kids and they're drunk dad and they arrive in town and I think he does he die immediately?
himself to death immediately.
The children then overhear their neighbours saying, Well, we're gonna have to get in touch with their grandpa and get him to look after them and the children are like, Uh oh, we hate that guy.
Yeah, immediately.
Sure, thank God I didn't read this.
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