THE CHAMPAGNE LETTERS

Narrating duo Cassandra Campbell and Jackie Sanders team up for this charming dual-timeline story of strong women with a love of champagne. In soft French-accented tones, Jackie Sanders becomes Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, widow of the creator of Veuve Clicquot champagne. She recounts her difficult life as a vintner during the Napoleonic Era through letters to her granddaughter. In contemporary times, bright-voiced Chicagoan Natalie Taylor, voiced by Cassandra Campbell, seeks to reinvent herself in Paris after her abrupt divorce. Natalie discovers Clicquot's letters and through them finds strength to meet life's new challenges. Campbell's hard-edged French accent for characters in the present complements Sanders's melodic French tones for the widow and her compatriots in the nineteenth century. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2025]