Family Gathering

By: Elizabeth Cadell

Narrated by: Anna Guerrier

Natalie Rome, timid and retiring, discovers that a new life at forty is not, after all, as difficult of achievement as she had feared. With new relations and a new home, she finds security and happiness. She also finds a stepdaughter as timid as herself and a stepson of exceptional charm; a mother-in-law in garden boots and ancient, formal hats who talks loudly and a great deal; and a father-in-law who seldom talks at all.

Into this assembly comes Natalie’s own daughter Helen; young, beautiful, successful and supremely confident. Helen and her new stepbrother enter at once into the age-old struggle between the woman who likes to organize other people’s lives, and the man who prefers to arrange his own.

©1950 Elizabeth Cadell (P)2023 The Heirs of Elizabeth Cadell

Oh my! What a beautiful book!

I just loved it. So romantic. So wonderfully written. So - Elizabeth Cadell. Gently leading us through the lives of Natalie and Helen on a way that - with the melodic narration, was just perfect. I never realised before how much of a favourite this book was to me. The narrator made it magical.

Terrible narration

I usually love Elizabeth Cadell books .i have been a fan for 60 years .This one is really tough to like.
It may have a lot to do with the TERRIBLE narration. It grates on my nerves and detracts from the
Content of the story. I couldn’t even finish it No more Anna Gurrier for me!