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Wild Oats

By: Veronica Henry
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
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Before The Beach Hut...enjoy Wild Oats. Jamie Wilding's return home is not quite going according to plan. A lot has changed in the picturesque Shropshire village of Upper Faviell since she left after the death of her mother. Her father is broke and behaving like a teenager. Her best friend's marriage is slowly falling apart. And the man she lost her heart to years ago is trying to buy her beloved family home.

As Jamie attempts to fix the mess, she is forced to confront a longstanding family feud and the truth about her father before she can finally listen to her own heart.

©2004 Veronica Henry (P)2015 Orion Publishing Group Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Heartfelt

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Appalling male voices - all sounded like thugs! Just read and don't act.
Bit of a cheesy storyline.
Much too long

Acting

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Would you listen to Wild Oats again? Why?

No, loads of the characters sounded like they had laryngitis.

What did you like best about this story?

it was cute and cheerful and inoffensive

How could the performance have been better?

If half the characters didn't sound like they were recovering from some sort of horrific throat complaint.
It wasn't even just the men!

laryngitis outbreak?

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Lovely chick lit, nothing too unpredictable with lots of interesting characters - I really enjoyed it.
However - the narrator has some terrible Stereo-typical regional accents, I'm from this part of the country and I can assure you no one sounds like that!! She's also not very good at the male parts.

Nice chick lit awful regional accents!

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loved it ..good holiday book to relax to, lots if characters possible giving the narrator a hard job to do as some characters sounded the same

good book

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I really enjoyed the story, Veronica Henry's books are always good. But it was spoilt for me by the dreadful portrayal of the characters. Young men and women sounded old and frail and all the voices would have been better just in the narrator's own voice It was hard to understand the characters with such awful voices and spoilt what was a good read.

Spoilt by narration

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A feel good book, with a good storyline and lots of ups and downs although the accents of the narrator were rubbish and quite annoying.

Great story..... rubbish accents

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I loved the story line but it was some what ruined by the narrators attempt at male voices plus the accents grated on my nerves at times.

Annoying voices and accents of the characters

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A nice easy listening book with some good twists and turns but narrator isn't good with the male voices as others have said.

I did enjoy it and pushing that aside a good book in all.

Great lighthearted story not so great male voices

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The book's actually quite enjoyable. I thought it was a continuation of Veronica Henry's Honeycote series but it's a complete stand alone.

Good variety of storylines and mix of characters that interweave and keep the interest going. Some aspects are pretty unbelievable (I suggest everyone avoids the local GP if he can't distinguish between a stroke and depression) and other aspects do stretch credulity, but no spoilers.

On the whole it's a light, enjoyable read / listen, apart from the male voices. One reviewer likens them to a mass outbreak of laryngitis, and that's a good description. I can just imagine the poor girl in the studio being directed to "make the men's voices deeper". They all, without exception, end up sounding like the late great Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners after a very very rough night!

The strangest male 'voices' I've ever heard!

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Overall this was a good story, although a bit predictable. I wasn't keen on the narrator's voices for the different characters. This was an entertaining book but I don't think I would listen to it again.

Entertaining

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