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Books : A Peaceful Retirement (Penguin audiobooks)
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A Peaceful Retirement (Penguin audiobooks) by: Read Miss List Price: £9.78 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.79 (29%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio Cassette Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780140864427 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0140864423 Label: Penguin Manufacturer: Penguin Number Of Items: 2 Number Of Pages: 2 Publication Date: September 04, 1997 Publisher: Penguin Release Date: September 30, 1996 Studio: Penguin Sales Rank: 33991 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Another gentle and charming book from my favourite authorA change in direction with not only retirement but marriage proposals as well for my most loved fictional character. With all of the Fairacre books, a book I have read over and over - only with particular sadness as it appears that this may be the final book. I found the illustrations a bit off putting - part of my love of Miss Read's books are due to J Goodall's beautiful illustrations - not that these are bad, just not what previous readers may be used to. My only complaint is that it is too short! Rating:  - A lovely and entertaining read, a book to get lost in.Miss Read, again manages to captivate the feelings of those who to are approaching retirement; and also of those who aren't. Her characters are all someone you know in your own life. Always feeling that they could be so and so. I always felt as if I was included in the story, like I was a friend. I'm an avid reader of her books but it seems this is the last one? She puts such warmth and feeling into this book it spills out from every page. It is obvious that her friends are as devoted to her as she is to them whatever happens. The frequent requests of marriage from John Jenkins are bittersweet and has nearly succumb once or twice. Her lifelong friend Amy, trying so hard to matchmake over the years, tries not to let John Jenkins ... Read More: |
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