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Wild Strawberries
- Narrated by: Hilary Neville
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile Agnes and her mother, the eccentric matriarch Lady Emily, have hopes of a different, more suitable match for Mary. At the lavish Rushwater dance party, her future happiness hangs in the balance....
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- Douglas
- 2016-08-24
Sense And Sensibility Meets Frazier!...
I cannot say enough good things about this novel and do not know what was in the head of the person who gave it a bad review. This is, so far, my favorite Thirkell novel, and that is saying something. Characters that leap out from the page and into your heart. Austenesque misadventures in love. And wickedly funny humor. I almost never laugh out loud at a book, but I must have laughed several hundred times at this one. Absolutely marvelous!
11 people found this helpful
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- THoward
- 2015-10-26
A historical novel
Books written in the 1930s have a similar flare and this one certainty did not disappoint the romantic. Somewhat slow and sometimes silly, the crushes and loves that progress throughout the summer are beautifully described. This is an honorable romance because everyone keeps their pants up and zippers zipped.
An English setting with some Victorian influences.
6 people found this helpful
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- Rebecca J. Leamon
- 2016-01-06
Palls. . .
Much ado about nothing. . . . but not as pleasant as her usual fluff. Too much time spent in the brains of people getting worked up about foolish things. Good but not stellar performance, and a weaker-than-normal-story.
4 people found this helpful