Anna Fields was the pseudonym used by narrator Kate Fleming – a truly gifted professional voice artist lost too soon in a tragic accident in 2006. She was the voice of Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ early audiobooks, including the entire Chicago Star series, and had recorded over 200 books in all genres. This is a listing of the reviews and articles here at AudioGals featuring her voice. We’ve included several samples at the end of the list – if you aren’t familiar with her work, you are truly missing out!
One Summer by Karen Robards
July 27, 2023
Narration: A++Story: AReviewer: MelindaPublisher: Blackstone Audio
Today’s Throwback Thursday throws way, way back – it’s of a 2014 re-release of a recording done in 2000 of a book published in 1993. At 30 years, the book has slipped from Contemporary to Vintage/Historical. Karen Robards’ writing is still compelling and Kate Fleming is still one of the greatest narrators of all time ...
Read moreLady Be Good by SEP or An Open Love Letter to SEP & Kate Fleming
June 9, 2023
Narration: A+Story: A+Reviewer: MelindaPublisher: Books on Tape
We are Flashing Way Back this Flashback Friday to October 2012, when I wrote this review for a now-vintage Romance by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from 1999! I hope you enjoy! Narrated by Anna Fields To be honest, I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. My first listen was ...
Read moreNobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
October 23, 2018
Narration: AStory: AReviewer: MelindaPublisher: Books on Tape
Narrated by Anna Fields A Vintage Review – audiobook published 2007, review from 2012 Anyone who is a fan of the Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Chicago Stars series as performed by Kate Fleming/Anna Fields can probably hear Fleming’s voice as she says “read by Anna Fields” at the beginning of every narration. The combination of these two incredible ...
Read moreDream a Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
June 3, 2015
Narration: AStory: AReviewer: MelindaPublisher: Books on Tape
Narrated by Anna Fields What a wonderful ending! It mists my eyes every time I listen to it, and this is probably the 10th. Dream a Little Dream is Book 4 in SEP’s Chicago Star series, even though it’s about the brother of a Chicago Stars player and doesn’t involve the Stars at all. It also ...
Read moreKiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
April 3, 2014
Narration: A+Story: A+Reviewer: LeaPublisher: Books on Tape
A Month of Romance Audio Favorites Selection Narrated by Anna Fields Susan Elizabeth Phillips (SEP), the master at turning quirky setups into laugh-out-loud moving romances, shines again in Kiss an Angel – this time with a circus as the backdrop and a group of neglected circus animals as secondary characters. Daisy Devreaux’s father thinks it’s time ...
Read moreFirst Lady by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
April 1, 2014
A Month of Romance Audio Favorites Selection Narrated by Anna Fields (Kate Fleming) This is one of my all-time favorites that I have now listened to several times! Cornelia, aka Neely Case, is the widow of the recently assassinated president of the US. She was raised in a political family, and her marriage – although she thought it ...
Read moreIt Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (with sound clip)
March 25, 2014
Narration: A+Story: A+Reviewer: LeaPublisher: Books on Tape
A Month of Romance Audio Favorites Selection Narrated by Anna Fields When I’m asked, “What is your favorite audiobook?”, two titles compete for first place – Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ It Had To Be You (1994 print – 1995 audio) and Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander (1991 print – 1994 audio). Both represent the highest in audiobook entertainment ...
Read moreTwo Gals Talking: One Summer by Karen Robards
January 20, 2014
Narrated by Anna Fields/Kate Fleming NOTE: the sound samples referenced in this post are no longer available, so the links have been removed. One Summer features schoolteacher Rachel Grant, now in her mid-thirties, and former student Johnny Harris, five years younger, who has spent the last ten years imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit. An extreme bad ...
Read moreHead Over Heels by Susan Andersen
July 19, 2013
Narration: A+Story: A+Reviewer: MelindaPublisher: Books on Tape
This is a very hard to find audiobook not showing any availability at Amazon or eBay. Narrated by Anna Fields What makes a great book even better? An audio book of it – read by Kate Fleming/Anna Fields! Yay! I located a set of cassettes of this out-of-print audiobook, and digitized them as I knew I’d want ...
Read moreMatch Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
October 22, 2012
Narration: AStory: AReviewer: Lea, Brenda and MelindaPublisher: Harper Audio
All three Gals discussed Match Me If You Can earlier as part of our Three Gals Talking: Three Gal Favorites event. But there’s definitely a review to be found within so here’s our discussion/review. Narrated by Anna Fields Lea: Susan Elizabeth Phillips (SEP) is well known in romance audioland with Anna Fields narrating 18 of her titles. In my mind ...
Read moreBrenda and Lea: Hunting Hard To Find Audios – Karen Robards’ One Summer
October 14, 2012
You don’t hear much these days about some of the best romance audiobooks out there – books that aren’t offered as downloads or hard copies either at retail outlets. In fact, you have to search Amazon in an almost detective-like manner to find many of these books. And some that I successfully tracked just a ...
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Below you’ll find samples of several of these wonderful audiobooks – enjoy!
When I first started reading DA and AAR (which led me to Lea and Goodreads), everyone raved about Anna Fields. I had “accidentally” discovered her just by listening to whatever my library had to offer. And I was as delighted as anyone (well, Lea may have been THE number one delighted listener) when One Summer was finally re-released. Anna Fields’ narrations are the gold standard for many of us.
Anna Fields is what all narrators should strive for. She was so nuanced and emoted so much feeling in all her works. She narrated both male and female characters with such distinction and fantastic tones. I listened to SEP’s entire Chicago Stars series because I could not imagine reading them when Anna Fields does such an amazing job. There is a part in Natural Born Charmer where SEP’s writing and Anna’s narration makes me bawl like a baby. I am currently listening to Kiss An Angel for the first time and once again Anna Fields is superb.
SEP/ Anna Fields best author/narrator duo EVER! Thanks for the reminder.
I can’t say she is my favorite narrator, but I will take her over any of the ones that I can’t stand, such as Sandra Burr.
This is the combo (Anna/SEP) that made me fall completely in love with romance audiobooks. I honestly wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for the way my eyes were opened by their work.