This is a selection of readings from "Saki", the pseudonym for Hector Hugh Munro, who was known for his eccentric wit and his short stories, both humorous and macabre. The readers are Dirk Bogarde, Tim Pigott-Smith, Zoe Wanamaker and Barbara Leigh Hunt.
For Judith Dunbar, her first glimpse of Nancherrow, her friend Loveday's beautiful family estate on the Cornish coast, is love at first sight - after the rigours of boarding school it spells luxury. She falls in love, too, with all Loveday's family. They treat Judith as one of them.