About L. M. Boston
Lucy
Maria Boston
(1892–1990) purchased a ramshackle manor house near Cambridge, England, in
1935, which over a period of two years she lovingly restored. It is this house
that inspired her, at the age of sixty-two, to take pen in hand and create the
beloved Green Knowe series.
About Simon Vance
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.