The Choir
About this audiobook
In the gentle world of one of England’s beautiful old cathedral towns, crisis looms: funds are short, and the cathedral is in need of major repair.
One faction of the community argues that the obvious solution is to abolish the expensive, and nowadays rather irrelevant, boys’ choir. But of course, there are those who disagree: the choir school’s headmaster, a conscientious scholar somewhat out of his depth with his elusive, poetical wife; the cathedral organist and choirmaster, brilliant, wayward, and in love with the lead chorister’s married mother; the former lead chorister, now twenty-three and directionless, who haunts his old school looking for a sense of purpose; and the gentle, left-wing bishop, trying to soothe the angry protagonists.
Their stories are marvelously woven into this enchanting story of modern life in old-world England.
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About the author
Joanna Trollope (1943–2025) was the author of historical novels and a study of women in the British Empire. However, she became best known for her lively contemporary novels, often centered on the nuances and dilemmas of domestic life in England. Her novel Parson Harding’s Daughter won the 1980 Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She was awarded the OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honors List for services to literature. She was a descendant of nineteenth-century English novelist Anthony Trollope.
Wanda McCaddon (d. 2023) narrated well over six hundred titles for major audiobook publishers, sometimes with the pseudonym Nadia May or Donada Peters. She earned the prestigious Audio Award for best narration and numerous Earphones Awards. She was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.
