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Gone-Away Lake

By: Elizabeth Enright
Narrated by: Colleen Delany
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About this listen

 Enjoy the adventures of eleven year-old Portia, who together with her younger brother, Foster, spend a summer with their cousin, Julian, engaged in more than the usual summer pastimes of sun, fun, and games. The three intrepid children soon discover a fascinating abandoned summer resort, consisting of deserted crumbling Victorian summer homes surrounding a vanished lake, which is now a swamp. But, best of all, they discover and befriend an elderly eccentric brother and sister who tell them the story of Gone-Away Lake.©1957 Elizabeth Enright, copyright renewed 1985 by Nicholas W. Gillham, Oliver Gillham, and Robert Gillham II (P)2003 Listen & Live Audio, Inc. Classics Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy

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Critic reviews

"A brilliance and a humor that make it seem as if it were happening right this minute." ( The New York Times Book Review)
"A beautifully written, wonderfully imaginative story." ( Publishers Weekly)
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Great family story,, set in an abandoned holiday resort. No technology involved and plenty of freedom for the kids.

Excellent Easy Listening

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I enjoyed it it was amazing and I would recommend to people who like family books.

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My only regret is that I didn't have the luck to read this as a child. I know how much I'd have loved it. Never mind, I've read it as an old lady and brother, what fun!
It could be considered anodyne in that nothing bad happens and everyone is lovely but she does it so well that that doesn't bother me. In the future when I'm ill or down, this is the book for me. I also loved the the narration by Colleen Delany. She brought the characters to life in all their quirkiness.

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