There are several advantages to listening to audiobook. It leaves your hands free to do other things, like washing up, or knitting. And it's a lifesaver for those whose hands don't hold things well or turn pages easily. So, let me give you some favorite narrators I've heard recently.
Penelope Keith may be familiar to you as Margo Ledbetter on the British comedy series "The Good Life", known in the US as The Good Neighbors". Dame Penelope reads the Agatha Raisin novels penned by M.C. Beaton and I love them. It was Keith's name that prompted me to download her first book "Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death" from my Overdrive account, and I've gone on to listen o the others. The narrator is her own voice and she moves easily from Agatha to the soft-spoken Mrs. Bloxby, the Vicar's wife, and she does an excellent job on the male voices too, from the high and whiny Roy to the half Chinese-half English policeman Bill Wong (who speaks with a Glostershire accent, with no hint of Chinese).
My only disappointment was in the most recent offering "Something Borrowed, Someone Dead." Agatha's assistant Toni gets engaged to a man, Frank Evans, whose mother lives in Cardiff, Wales-where I was born. I was hoping to hear a Welsh accent, but it was almost proper English until the end of her scene when the h's disappear and the sing-song lilt takes their place. this could be entirely due to how the character was written as she does not look like the typical Welsh woman, as described by Beaton, but "a dyed blonde, with a wind -tunnel facelift and a mouth enhanced by collagen."
I would recommend anything read by Penelope Keith take top spot in your audiobook selections.
