The Lady Brewer of London

Karen Brooks

Feb 2025 · Bolinda · Narrated by Hannah Norris

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About this audiobook

1405. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Anneke Sheldrake suddenly finds her family bankrupted when her father’s ship is swept away at sea. Forced to find a way to provide for herself and her siblings, Anneke rejects an offer of marriage from a despised cousin and instead turns to her late mother’s family business – brewing ale. Armed with her mother’s recipes, she then makes a bold deal with her father’s aristocratic employer, putting her home and family at risk. Thanks to her fierce determination, Anneke’s brew wins a following and begins to turn a profit. But her rise threatens some in her community and those closest to her are left to pay the price. As Anneke slowly pieces her life together again, she finds an unlikely ally in a London brothel owner. Determined not only to reclaim her livelihood and her family, Anneke vows not to let anyone stand in the way of her forging her own destiny.

About the author

Karen Brooks is the author of 11 books, an academic and newspaper columnist. She has a PhD in English / Cultural Studies, is an award-winning lecturer and has published internationally on popular culture, education and social psychology. When not writing, Karen loves being with her family, her fur kids – the dogs, spending time with friends, cooking, travelling, reading and dreaming. She lives in Hobart, Tasmania in a stone house built in 1868, which has its own wonderful stories to tell.

Hannah’s one-woman show My Name is Rachel Corrie was nominated for both the Adelaide Critics’ Circle and Green Room Awards 2010, and won the Adelaide Theatre Guild’s ‘Curtain Call’ Award for Best Female Performance in 2010. In 2009 she was awarded Best Theatre Performance for her role in After the End. Her theatre credits include: Actors at Work (Bell Shakespeare), Goodbye Ruby Tuesday (Melbourne International Comedy Festival), The Red and the Black (Stork Theatre), Been So Long (Adelaide Fringe 2006), Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Australian Shakespeare Company). 2012 saw Hannah starting the year touring Australia in David Williamson’s Let the Sunshine.

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