The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden audiobook.
Genre: comedy
In a quiet bend of the Thames, the villa called Pleasance promises peace and privacy - except for one flaw: it is semi-detached. When delicate, high-born Blanche and her level-headed sister Aileen settle in while Blanche's husband, Arthur, is sent abroad, they find themselves unavoidably joined to the Hopkinsons, a bluff, warmhearted middle-class family whose manners alarm Blanche nearly as much as they rescue her. As rain-soaked mishaps and forced introductions pile up, the wall between the two households proves far less solid than anyone expected, and the sisters are drawn into a tangle of visits, confidences, and carefully managed respectability. With Aunt Sarah's unshakable common sense as ballast and London society's watchful eyes never far away, friendships form across class lines - and the question becomes which connections are truly suitable, and which are simply true. Witty, observant, and gently sharp about money, breeding, and the performance of propriety, Emily Eden's novel turns a single shared wall into a lively test of character, loyalty, and love.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:10:37) Chapter 02
(00:23:29) Chapter 03
(00:36:12) Chapter 04
(00:47:28) Chapter 05
(01:00:32) Chapter 06
(01:07:56) Chapter 07
(01:23:29) Chapter 08
(01:47:50) Chapter 09
(01:59:03) Chapter 10
(02:14:55) Chapter 11
(02:22:05) Chapter 12
(02:36:11) Chapter 13
(02:51:33) Chapter 14
(03:07:53) Chapter 15
(03:21:01) Chapter 16
(03:37:24) Chapter 17
(03:57:44) Chapter 18
(04:12:51) Chapter 19
(04:27:46) Chapter 20
(04:40:44) Chapter 21
(04:54:27) Chapter 22
(05:10:22) Chapter 23
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