Beyond These Voices, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Beyond These Voices, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Beyond These Voices

Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Narrator: Eloise Fairfax

Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/31/2025


Synopsis

Beyond These Voices is a Victorian novel of love, loss, and social constraint. Lady Felicia Disbrowe, proud yet impoverished, hopes her beautiful daughter Cara will secure a prosperous future. Defying expectation, Cara falls for the gifted but penniless poet Lancelot Davis, setting passion against duty. As class pressures and personal ambition collide, Braddon explores the cost of love, family loyalty, and the enduring voices of conscience and memory.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mbuye on November 13, 2023

Braddon is better known for her complicated plots, but here she takes some trouble over the characters. Even the deceased have a distinct personality here: the heroine's mother, for instance, has the gumption to marry the man of her choice in a registry office and live very happily with him for four......more

Goodreads review by Julia on May 21, 2018

This story has many appealing sections, but there is so much repetition about how the different characters felt about everything that it was sometimes numbing. I did have part of the mystery figured out (just as the author intended!) but was surprised by the other part. Each of the characters had an......more