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Mrs Griffin Sends her Love
- And Other Writings
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
From organising the school summer fete - 'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand' - to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood - 'I collect stones with holes in them' - Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village schools, as only she can. This collection also includes extracts from her letters: 'Michael Joseph wrote after the Observer thing and is throwing out feelers for a book. I shall know if he still feels like it - me too! - after we've met'. It will also include an Introduction on how 'Miss Read' was first created:
Miss Read was born fully clothed in sensible garments and aged about forty. She was born, in fact, when I was struggling to write my first book and needed a village schoolmistress as the narrator.
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- G M HEWITT
- 26-01-23
lovely stories.
brilliant stories.beautifully read. memories of a golden time. miss read was a brilliant story teller.
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- Christopher Leach
- 27-04-17
enjoyable dip into the past
interesting mixture of country life when children had a real childhood in a now vanishing world
excellent narator
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- Anonymous User
- 21-03-19
Miss Griffin Sends her Love
The narrator was very irritating the way she spoke I found annoying. I wouldn't get another audio book if she was the narrator.
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- Stephen Canessa
- 25-06-22
content fine, narration not so
the narrator's voice becomes irritating after a while. she sounds likes a blue peter presenter of the 1950s, patronising and disengaging
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