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Love Among the Ruins
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
It's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter.
When Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities.
Love Among the Ruins is a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series.
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- Moomin
- 06-08-24
The most boring Angela Thirkell I have come across
I couldn’t find how to return this book so I thought I might as well listen to the end to see if anything would happen. Not much did. Scores of people from earlier books drifted in and out, either with children or doing worthy jobs and still unmarried. It all seemed rather confusing and pointless. A big theme was how awful everything was in the immediate aftermath of the war and this was the most interesting part really- social history written at the time.
Eventually one couple got engaged.
The reader wasn’t bad and did interesting voices, which certainly helped in the lengthy (and largely pointless) conversations but she made some odd mispronunciations and wasn’t able to be sufficiently enthusiastic to make the prose sing. But then, who can blame her.
Don’t waste a credit on this.
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