Wonderful story, minor performance annoyances

Such great stories. Performer mispronounces certain words which is a little annoying - but is still easy to listen too despite. When you know the book I guess you just want perfection in the performer :-) Such a wonderful comedic picture of social climbing, snobbery and one-upmanship. Overall SO worth getting.

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Great stories, let down by pronunciation

It should be Rizzum NOT Rise-home! But that's a small complaint. It did have my inner Mapp cringing though!

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Escape into the roaring 1920s

Witty stories of silly snobbery. A delightful distraction. If you like P G Wodehouse's tales, you'll enjoy this.

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Great writing spoilt by vocal performance

These are my favourite books of all time. Unfortunately the reader is not good enough, mispronouncing Riseholme and providing a ridiculous voice for Captain Puffin. Overall the stories win through

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an exquisite performance of gently satirical tales

I used to watch the adoptions of these stories as a child with my mum I'm here incredibly from memories all of them and I tried to listen to the books in several different versions over the years since while appreciating the writing the performances of Americans doing pseudo English accents or or a really old and slightly stilted recording always made me feel that perhaps a translation in the TV done the story the favour however this glorious performance his quite set the record straight

strangely enough I would say that the first in the trilogy is not actually my favourite and I was surprised that each book very much has its own tone and quality while still having overarching similarities the residents of Tilling are trying to be be on a par with the Residence of riseholme without quite the resources to do it making miss Maps Adventures quite sweet and less egotistical where is Lucia later adventures in London cast her in quite a different light my recommendation please don't be put off if the first story doesn't quite do it for you hold on and give you the this is truly a treasure and although I'd said the first one isn't my favourite these stories really are gold throughout just different grades of gold the one thing I would say is if anyone from audible.co.uk is reading these please can you chapter this first volume as you done the second with little dividers with the title of each book between the chapters so you can skip it easily

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Thank you Naxos - perfection.

What a joy to discover this unabridged version of Mapp and Lucia, read by the perfect narrator. I cannot get enough of M&L but have always been so disappointed by the abridged versions previously available - wonderful though the narrations are. When you read the books you realise what a lot of detail has been left out. I am sad enough to listen to these (and read them) constantly and repeatedly, and to have the whole whack in one go is just glorious. I cannot wait for the second part - please don't let us down Naxos! This narrator is fabulous - wonderful diction, perfect interpretation of the characters and a really mellifluous timbre - perfect night time listening.

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Wonderful, and with superb narration.

I love the Mapp and Lucia novels and have read them many, many times. They’re hilariously funny and brilliantly well-observed. I was a bit worried that the audio book would be a disappointment, but the narration of this version is so good that listening to it has been an absolute joy.

Each character has a totally credible, distinct and consistent voice, perfect suited to their individual character traits, but the narration isn’t overdone and doesn’t draw attention to itself by being too stagey.

Probably the best narration of any audio book I have ever listened to, so highly recommended.

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Brilliant.

Loved every minute of the stories. I think the narrator made a brilliant job of all the characters.

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A light and delicious series

These books were recently reviewed on BBC radio 4 by Giles Brandrith . I was not disappointed and will listen to the other books . Very light and easy to listen to . Lucia is an incomparable snob but very clever and great fun as she rackets through the first and last volumes . In the middle volume Miss Mapp - much more dour but after a few chapters I enjoyed her unfolding story. Narration of some males could have been better but did not detract .

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Thoroughly entertaining

Perfect audible book. Really enjoyed the Lucia stories. Very clever and witty writing and fabulous narration!

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