Daphne Elliot Audiobooks

Sap & Secrets: a Maplewood romance, nine and a half hours in a single voice

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 3.9/5 average

4 listener ratings

Who is Daphne Elliot?

Two nouns joined by an ampersand, and a series name that sounds like somewhere you could drive to. That is very nearly the whole of what Daphne Elliot has told us so far, and it is enough to place the work: romance, written to belong to a place rather than to float free of one.

Naming a series Maplewood is a deliberate move. It sets an expectation of continuity, of a cast that can be returned to and a setting that accumulates its own history from story to story, which is the engine that keeps the community romance shelf so well loved.

Daphne Elliot in audiobooks

Sap & Secrets comes to us read by Vanessa Edwin and runs to a shade over nine and a half hours, the standard shape of a full-length contemporary romance rather than a novella squeezed into an afternoon.

It is early days for the listener verdict. Only a handful of ratings sit behind the title so far, too thin a base to draw conclusions from, so the honest advice is to sample the opening minutes and judge the narrator’s pitch for yourself. Voice matters more in this genre than in almost any other.

If the Maplewood setting takes, the series shape suggests there should be more to come. Begin with the listings below.