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At the heart of each of these classic stories is an adoptee with an indomitable spirit who becomes the heroine (or hero) of her own life, despite all odds. Narrating these great classics showed me that the bravery it takes for an unwanted orphan to forge her own path in life was as great 150 years ago as it is today
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie's classic tale of Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up. When Peter flies into the Darling home looking for his shadow he teaches Wendy, John and Michael how to fly with him back to the island of Neverland. There they embark on an 'awfully big adventure.'
Great Expectations
Alison Larkin changes the gender of Dickens' most famous character in this new adaptation of Great Expectations. It's the same thrilling story of poverty, prison ships, an old woman jilted at the altar, a beautiful, haughty, damaged young woman, a mysterious financial gift that transforms the life of a young person. Only one thing has changed. In this version, Pip is a woman.
The Secret Garden
When her parents die from cholera in India, orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in a cold, dark mansion in England. Then she discovers a secret garden that has been locked since her Aunt died 10 years earlier...
Jane Eyre
The epic love story of the plain, unwanted orphan with an indomitable spirit who becomes a great romantic heroine despite all odds still resonates with millions of fans all over the world.
After being subjected to cruelty in her foster home and at boarding school, Jane becomes a governess in the home of the mysterious, sarcastic and deadly attractive Mr. Rochester who harbors a terrible secret...
Alison Larkin is the best-selling author of The English American, an autobiographical novel about an adopted English woman who finds her birth parents in the US and the award-winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks including The Complete Novels by Jane Austen. Other classic narrations include Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; Fairytales of the Fiercer Sex by the Brothers Grimm, et al; The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; Peter Pan and The Inconsiderate Waiter; Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, freely adapted by Alison Larkin; and Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary.
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