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The Pearly Queen
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
The Pearly Queen was really Aunt Edie. She was 39, had a good job in a factory, lived in a flat off Camberwell Green and had never married. Her fiancé had drowned in the Thames when she was a girl, and since then she had been on her own, though not from choice. Everyone loved Aunt Edie - but especially the Andrews family.
Jack Andrews was having a tough time. He'd come back from the First World War to find his wife had 'got religion'. She'd got it so badly that she finally went off, left Jim and the three children and joined Father Peter's League of Repenters. She never really came home again. Jack and the children managed as best they could, but things were pretty tough when Aunt Edie turned up. The first thing she did was give her cousin, Maud Andrews, a piece of her mind for running off and leaving her family. But when that didn't do any good, Edie moved in and took over the Andrews family. For the first time in years life began to look good again. Aunt Edie was warm, generous, kind and, above all, she was their very own Pearly Queen.
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- a buckley
- 07-08-23
enjoyed
a wonderful book really enjoyed it ,oratory excellent recommend it highly funny and sad
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-08-24
Very slow start, didn’t th8nk I would finish it, but enjoyable half way through the book
Too much ‘he said, she said’ when it was very obvious. Would recommend some of Mary’s books but not all, as one I had to cease listening too as too naive and silly altogether
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- Frances
- 21-03-23
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another corker from many jane s5apled loved it sorry when it ended highly recommend it
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- Jitterbug
- 18-04-23
Like Slow-Moving Traffic
Having read and enjoyed the entire Camberwell series written by Mary Jane Staples, I must admit that I found this book very disappointing.
It reminded me of slow moving traffic, and there were times when I struggled to continue.
The constant repetition of ‘said Jimmy, said Billy, said Dad’ etc etc started to get on my nerves.
But overall this is a decent enough book and the performance by Jilly Bond is good. Just be prepared to chug along at a slow pace listening to prose rather than an exciting story.
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- Loretta J. Miller
- 07-08-23
Assume read
Was so sorry when it ended. Funny, poignant, adorable sad, just an amazing read. Narrator fit the story. Overall just fantastic.
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- Pegsy
- 25-02-23
Lovely story.
Aww so pleased everything worked out in the end. What a lovely family, beautifully written characters.
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- Helen
- 05-08-24
Easy Listen
I almost returned this at chapter 7, I found it was just a bit flat and the narration was a bit slow. I gave it longer because I usually like this authors books, I ended up warming to the family and I’m pleased I did.
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- Julie
- 01-12-22
What a lovely book
Am lucky my Church is not like that, really lovely story. At first wasn't sure if different narrater for Writters books, but after a couple of chapters I did so enjoy her voice. Thank you.
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- Katrina&andthewaves
- 17-09-23
Great Book
I really enjoyed this family story! Initially I wasn't sure about all the character voices Jilly Bond did but I found I got used to them and liked them. It's 5 stars from me!
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- 11-10-24
Another sweet well written story by Mary Jane Staples
If you like Mary Jane staples you’ll love this book! It’s a sweet post war and life post war Britain
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