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Letters to Alice

On First Reading Jane Austen

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Letters to Alice

By: Fay Weldon
Narrated by: Lesley Parkin
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About this listen

How to be a reader - how to be a writer. All you need to know.

Alice is an 18-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own niece, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.

©2011 Fay Weldon (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction

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I liked the story a lot. Weldon is magnificent. I would have liked it even better had the voice of the narrator not had not that slightly sharp edge. Had I not liked the story as much as I did… but well, I did listen to the end.

Witty, informative

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condescending drivel.
Life is far too short to waste 5 1/2 hours listening to this.

complete tripe

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