The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Book 2

By: Beth Brower

Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt

“I was sitting at my desk reading, with a cup of tea, my windows flung open, when I heard The Tenant enter his garret, just on the other side of the wall from myself.”

THE YEAR IS 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.

Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.

Audiences have compared Beth Brower's writing to Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, and L. M. Montgomery.

Narrated by Genevieve Gaunt. A Londoner born and bred, she started her acting career playing Pansy Parkinson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban before going on to read English at Cambridge where she graduated with a Double First. Recent work includes playing Marilyn Monroe in The Marilyn Conspiracy on stage and narrating The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming. Alongside acting on stage, screen, audiobooks and radio Genevieve writes for audiodrama (Thunderbirds), reviews books for The Spectator and interviews authors and creatives for literary festivals and in print for A Rabbit’s Foot magazine.

Directed by Tamsin Collison, an award-winning audio director with over 500 audiobooks and dramas to her credit, collaborating with artists from David Tennant to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Recent highlights include a dramatisation of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Thandiwe Newton's award-winning recording of Tolstoy’s War & Peace, and a new set of all-star readings of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. She also lectures at leading UK drama academies, including RADA and LAMDA. A lyricist/librettist, Tamsin has been commissioned by English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, Tête à Tête Opera, Highbury Opera Theatre and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Recent works include Last Man Standing and an opera based on Michael Palin’s The Weekend.

This audiobook was recorded at The Strathmore Studios. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Beth Brower (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

My favorite book series, possibly ever!

I love this book series. I was so excited when Beth said they were coming out with an audiobook because, as a busy mom, I don’t really get a lot of opportunities to sit down and read. I wouldn’t say that the narrator has the voice I imagined, but by book two I was perfectly content with it. I did speed it up to 1.2x speed. One part I think played out even better in narration than the book was her rendition of the reprobates cheering and moaning along to Hawkes sermon. I laughed out loud. I absolutely love it!

Delightful, witty

It was a little slow for me but I quite whizzed through the last hour of it and enjoyed that part very much. Overall I really did love it. Emma is just hilarious, charming and enchanting. The other characters as well. It’s a lovely story really and I can’t wait for what’s next.

The best

These books are so good and the performance is top notch. She is the perfect narrator for these books

fun to listen to

This book is very entertaining, and includes much good humor. I really enjoyed listening to it!

And it keeps getting better.....

The second book continues on with our peek into the life of Emma M. Lion. While the first book was frustrating in the way Emma was being treated (and HAD been mistreated) by her abhorrent cousin, things have evened out as Emma seems to have found her footing and we are now beginning to see some of the sass and intelligence that was waiting to get out.

This book seems to move quicker, and yet we are still meeting new characters. All of these new characters that are being introduced are somehow NOT just cardboard cutouts of people. Somehow, they are fleshed out characters or at least they are on their way to being developed in ways that individualize each different person. While at the same time, there are characters that have an air of mystery to them and I am eager to see where things are going to go with them. (i.e. the Duke, Mr. Pierce, her childhood nemesis, Jack) and that is only a few.

The events feel rich and full and somehow she is able to bring to life a whole new world through the entries in her journal.

I am excitedly eager to keep going because I desperately am interested in what is going to happen next.