The Sugar House

Antonia White

Jun 2024 · Clara Batchelor Trilogy Book 2 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Kim Bretton

About this audiobook

The year is 1920. Clara Batchelor, the heroine of The Lost Traveller, is now an actress with a touring repertory company and is passionately in love with the wholly unsuitable Stephen Tye. When Stephen betrays her, Clara betrays herself by agreeing to marry Archie, the fiance she discarded four years before. A friendship but not a love match, the marriage is a desperate attempt by Clara to rekindle the safety of childhood. But neither of them are children any more and their dream sugar house begins to dissolve. The Sugar House is the second in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and continues in Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

About the author

Antonia White (1899-1980) was educated in London at St Paul's and RADA. From 1924 until the Second World War she worked as a journalist. Among many volumes of short stories, fiction and autobiography, White published a celebrated quartet of novels: Frost in May, The Lost Traveller, The Sugar House, and Beyond the Glass.

Kim Bretton is an Audie Award nominee, a Broadway World Award winner, and was voted Best Actress in Nashville by the Nashville Scene. She has narrated over 100 audiobooks to date. Her TV and film credits include Call Red for ITV, Don't Look Back for New Forest Films, and the lead role in the 1990s TV series Mentors.