“Hand builds disquiet and disjuncture quietly this is not a novel of thrills and puzzles but a lengthy spell itself…Hand is an expert at building mood and atmosphere in ways that you don’t realize until you feel it around you.” “Hand writes with elegance, power, and passion about the spell that music can cast and the sorcery that is its creation.” “ luminous evocation of a period and place…The novella gains a strange power apart from its rather restrained supernatural manifestations, a power driven by the sense of lost dreams that has always driven Hand’s best fiction.” An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has voiced several fantasy and science fiction books, including a number of the original Doctor Who books and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Twice a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, he has been heard in many radio plays and readings. Among her dozens of audiobook narrations are The Gamekeeper’s Lady by Ann Lethbridge, Tideline by Penny Hancock, and One Illicit Night by Sophia James.ĭavid Thorpe has appeared in numerous stage plays, in repertory, and on tour. She currently works as an actor and voice artist, and she is particularly interested in Shakespeare and classical adaptations.Ĭharlotte Strevens has worked as a voice and television actress. He has made hundreds of radio broadcasts, and he plays the part of Alan, the vicar, in The Archers.Įmma Fenney trained as an actor at Drama Studio London after earning her degree in drama and theatre arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has appeared many times in various television dramas, while his parallel theatrical career has involved him in leading roles at the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal National Theatre, the Old Vic in London, and many regional theaters. John Telfer, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor best known for playing the character of Willy Pettit in five seasons of Bergerac.

Read by Jennifer Woodward, John Teller, Dan Morgan, Emma Fenney, Simon Victor, Kris Dyer, Charlotte Stevens, and David Thorpe

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand