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A Peaceful Retirement (Penguin Audiobooks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Miss Read
Creator: June Whitfield
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
Buy New: £2.90
You Save: £7.09 (71%)
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 325263
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Pages: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0140864423
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140864427
ASIN: 0140864423
Publication Date: September 5, 1996
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Sill sealed but has crack to case.Will post within 24 hours.
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 Another gentle and charming book from my favourite author February 6, 2002
a_nicholls@bigpond.com (Melbourne, Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A change in direction with not only retirement but marriage proposals as well for my most loved fictional character. With all of the Fairacre books, a book I have read over and over - only with particular sadness as it appears that this may be the final book. I found the illustrations a bit off putting - part of my love of Miss Read's books are due to J Goodall's beautiful illustrations - not that these are bad, just not what previous readers may be used to. My only complaint is that it is too short!
 A lovely and entertaining read, a book to get lost in. October 24, 1999
fred.ward@tesco.net (Birmingham, England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Miss Read, again manages to captivate the feelings of those who to are approaching retirement; and also of those who aren't. Her characters are all someone you know in your own life. Always feeling that they could be so and so. I always felt as if I was included in the story, like I was a friend. I'm an avid reader of her books but it seems this is the last one? She puts such warmth and feeling into this book it spills out from every page. It is obvious that her friends are as devoted to her as she is to them whatever happens. The frequent requests of marriage from John Jenkins are bittersweet and has nearly succumb once or twice. Her lifelong friend Amy, trying so hard to matchmake over the years, tries not to let John Jenkins slip through Miss Reads' fingers but alas fails again. She gets great support from Henry Mawne, who has also been a suitor in the past but Miss Read also gently refused him. She looks forward to retirement with joy and some trepidation, however handles the situation very well. I hope there will be more stories from her in the not to distant future.
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