jacey | Booklog 37/26: Rosalind Tate: Stranded – Shorten Chronicles #1

Audiobook narrated by Katy Sobey.

Sophie Arundel and her labradoodle, Charlotte, step into a lift on her first day at university in 2017, and stumbles out in 1925. Also in the lift was Hugo, a privileges annoying student she knows from school. 1925 is a different world, literally. It's a different timeline in which the First World War never happened and chaos is turning into revolution. Sophie and Hugo fine refuge at Shorten Manor with Anne, her husband, Richard, and their son, Freddie - very much a product of his upbringing. Anne came through the portal herself, half a lifetime ago, so she's able to help Spohie adjust to the era of servants, propriety and gossip. Can Sophie and Hugo work out how the lift works and find their way home before the lifestyle engulfs them. None of the other half-dozen travellers has ever managed to go home, though it seems that they don't want to. Katy Sobey has a girlish voice, but it works well in this context