Sawn Off - A Tale of a Family Tree by George Manville Fenn AUDIOBOOK

George Manville Fenn’s “Sawn Off – A Tale of a Family Tree” draws its listeners into the tangled boughs of rural English society, offering an intricate study of family conflict, social standing, and the subtle strains of heritage and belonging. Set in an evocative landscape where ancient parks and manor houses stand as silent sentinels to generations past, the novel opens with Doctor Salado and his spirited daughter, Veronica, confronting not just the physical barrier of an imposing hoarding erected by their aristocratic neighbors, but the invisible barriers of class, prejudice, and rivalry.

Fenn, a master of Victorian domestic drama and storytelling, crafts a world where affection and loyalty contend with ambition and resentment. The narrative navigates tensions between the self-assured and fiercely proud Doctor—an Englishman seasoned by decades abroad—and the entrenched authority of Lord Pinemount, whose feuds and machinations reverberate through both families.

At the heart of the story lies the enduring power of love and the threat of generational expectations. Veronica’s relationship with Denis Rolleston, the Honourable son of Lord Pinemount, is both a source of hope and strife, complicated by parental ambitions and the shadow of old grievances. Fenn’s writing is marked by its clarity, wit, and deft characterization, capturing scenes both tender and spirited, often laced with light irony and gentle satire.

Listeners will find themselves swept into layers of rural intrigue, romantic uncertainty, and a portrait of English life on the eve of change, where a patch of land becomes the stage for larger questions of identity and inheritance. This is a narrative as much about reconciliation and pride as it is about the bittersweet ties of family, rendered by Fenn’s observant and humane prose.

Audiobook time & format : 5h43m2s, OPUS, 265 Mo
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