The Shell Seekers

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

Vanessa Redgrave

Penelope Keeling

Maximilian Schell

Lawrence Sterne

Charles Edwards

Noel Keeling

Prunella Scales

Dolly Keeling

Victoria Smurfit

Olivia Keeling

Victoria Hamilton

Nancy Chamberlaine

Sebastian Koch

Cosmo König

Stephanie Stumph

Antonia König

Richard Hope

George Chamberlaine

Lucas Gregorowicz

Danus Muirfield

Maisie Dimbleby

Young Penelope

Toby Fisher

Ambrose Keeling

Alastair Mackenzie

Richard

Cherith Mellor

Mrs. Plackett

Hugh Sachs

Roy Brookner

Imogen Bain

Sister Rogers

Rebecca Blake

Angie

Amanda Boxer

Aunt Ethel Stern