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The Telephone Box Library
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
The Cotswolds: the perfect retreat for a stressed-out teacher. And Lucy has found just the right cottage for a bargain rent. All she has to do is keep an eye on Bunty, her extremely feisty 90-something neighbour....
With her West Highland terrier Hamish at her side, Lucy plans to relax and read up on the women of nearby Bletchley Park. But the villagers of Little Maudley have other ideas and she finds herself caught up in the campaign to turn a dilapidated telephone box into a volunteer-run library.
Along the way, she makes friends with treehouse designer Sam and finds herself falling for the charms of village life. And it seems Bunty has a special connection to Bletchley and the telephone box, one that she's kept secret for decades....
The Telephone Box Library is an uplifting story about fresh starts and new beginnings, set in a picturesque Cotswold village, by best-selling author Rachael Lucas.
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- MARY HOWDEN
- 06-06-21
loved it !
loved it ! couldn't stop listening! can't wait to read another ! would definitely recommend !
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- Janet Jones
- 13-06-21
Lovely.....
storyline with some adorable characters it was lovely to listen to. The narrator was very good.
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- Holly
- 08-11-23
lightweight fluff
This book contained so many themes: history, single parenting, fostering, the realities of teaching, the demise of libraries, the value of village as community, any of which could have been developed to give it a bit more meat. Instead, they were all juggled as background and left disappointingly thin in favour of the predictable romance.
Some well drawn village characters, the ones we can all relate to, but the dialogue felt clunky and Lucy and Sam's interminable dithering and self doubt irritating. Quite a lot of thematic and linguistic repetition left me wondering why the book had not been more thoroughly edited?
However, the plot was so easy to follow that the story could be considered entertaining for those who are wanting something light. But I did not find it a satisfying or engaging listen.
The narrator managed to portray each character separately through voice, although some greater nuance in places would have been good.
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- JEANNIE
- 03-09-24
Nice n easy!
Just a lovely listen, well read. Predictable, but a lovely, warm, feel good factor story.
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- Phil Best
- 19-10-24
The Telephone Box Library
Excellent story about village life, secrets in the community and telephone box library, beautifully narrated, most enjoyed by Bernice Best Oct 2024.
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- m harding
- 12-02-21
lovely light listen
listened to and from work, a great way to wind down. I really enjoyed it.
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- Ms Much
- 31-07-24
A story of people in a small village
Enchanting story no violence nasty in life just a story of a girl a woman who is quite lost until she needs all these different people different ages particularly oldest resident Bunty who is an absolute character hating being treated like a silly old woman because she wasn’t even at 90+ she did amazing things in the 2nd world war. I have been very badly injured and have been listening to the story to relax me and it has worked.
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- Gareth
- 12-10-24
A charming story
I really liked this. Nothing about it not to like and an English narrator which I always do prefer.
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- Flossy
- 29-09-24
Telephone box library
excellent story telling extremely well told very interesting facts brought the past alive again for people to hear
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- D. Harding
- 17-10-24
Insipid
Weak storyline and predictable characters. I gave up after a few chapters as it didn’t engage me at all.
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