This is another book I listened to thanks to the library Oneclick Audio service and ended up buying… It was really enjoyable to listen to but it’s quite a long book, and quite complex in parts, so I bought it so I could flick back and forth for clarification. It’s 375 pages with small font, so I’m glad I could listen to it as well, to save my eyes - and the narrator was excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hadn’t realised it was number 11 in a series, but it was fine as a read alone, although I would like to see how the characters have been introduced and developed in the earlier books.
I love Elizabeth
Peter’s witty writing style, it makes me smile, and the narrator is excellent
and really captures the humour.
Here’s an extract
from the Preface:
"The quotations at
the head of each chapter were taken from A captive of the Arabs, by
Percival Peabody, Esq. (He’s the detestable nephew referred to earlier) ,
(Privately printed on London in 1911). We were fortunate to be able to obtain a
copy of this exceedingly rare volume through the good offices of a friend in
London who found it on barrow in Covent Garden, Price 50p. The text is an
astonishing blend of the worst of two literary forms: the swash buckling
romances popular at the time and the memoirs of travellers and officials of the
period. The views expressed by Mr Peabody are no more bigoted and ignorant than
those of many of his contemporaries, however the parallels between his work and
other memoirs are so exact as to suggest he borrowed freely and directly from
them. The word plagiarism might be actionable, so this editor will not use
it".
I really enjoyed
this book - it was pure escapism with a blend of romance, mystery and murder and
I will certainly turn to others in the series when I feel in need of the feel
good factor.
She is a prolific
and successful novelist with over 50 novels to her credit. Mrs Peters has six
cats and two dogs…
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