Audio Spotlight: The Winter of Enchantment by Victoria Walker
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Narrator: Kim Bretton
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Publisher: Victoria Clayton Limited⎮2020
Genre: Fantasy; Children’s
Series: Sebastian and Melissa, Book 1
Release date: Jun. 15, 2020
Synopsis: A magic mirror enables Sebastian to travel from his Victorian world of winter snow and Mrs Parkin to a magic world of Melissa, Mantari, and wicked Enchanter and many other exciting people.
This wonderful audiobook follows in the great tradition of the E. Nesbit magic books. Since its first publication in 1969 it has proved its appeal to children of every age.
Long out of print until republished by Fidra Books in the UK and Purple House Press in the USA, it received praise from respected children's authors.
The sequel to this book is called The House Called Hadlows.
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About the Author: Victoria Walker
Victoria Walker was twenty-one when she wrote The Winter of Enchantment in 1968. A second story about Sebastian and Melissa, The House Called Hadlows, was published in 1972. In 1973 she went to Cambridge University to read English and married immediately after finishing her degree. Two children followed and two decades passed before she began to write under her married name of Victoria Clayton. She lives with her husband in Northamptonshire.
About the Narrator: Kim Bretton
Kim Bretton Kim is an accomplished and award winning actress and director with West End/Broadway theatre credits. Kim has narrated over 60 audiobooks and counting. She is also an in demand voice over talent in the commercial and corporate arena and owns her own class A recording studio in Nashville. Kim is from the UK but has lived in NYC, L.A. and now Nashville TN. She continues to work in Theatre, Film and TV as an actress and a director alongside narrating audiobooks and commercial voice overs.
