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  • Mrs Griffin Sends her Love

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  • By: Miss Read
  • Narrated by: Jilly Bond
  • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)
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Mrs Griffin Sends her Love

By: Miss Read
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
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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.
©2013 Miss Read (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
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"The writing is an evocative ticket back to the 1950s and 60s: delightful tales of country life, which will stir memories in those old enough to remember and charm those young enough not to have those memories.... Anyone who takes pleasure in tales of times past, and the interesting trivia that make up everyday life will revel in this book. It's a delight from start to finish." ( Oxford Times)

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lovely stories.

brilliant stories.beautifully read. memories of a golden time. miss read was a brilliant story teller.

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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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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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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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