Past imperfect audiobook

Cancel anytime. Edith Lavery, the pretty daughter of an accountant, meets gossip-column favorite Charles Broughton Earl of Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield at Ascot. When he proposes and she accepts, does she really love him, or is she merely dazzled by his title and money?

From Publishers Weekly.

By: Julian Fellowes. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the 20th century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals.

Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. By: Daisy Goodwin.

Audiobook by Julian Fellowes, narrated by Julian Fellowes.

The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic. By: Anderson Cooper , and others.

Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman in England.

He is also impoverished, with no hope of buying the horse needed to win the Grand National