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Title: A Long Way from Verona

Author: Jane Gardam

Narrator: Kate Sachs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her - a confining world of wartime restrictions, Viyella dresses, nicely restrained essays, and dusty tea shops. For Jessica has been told that she is 'beyond all possible doubt' a born writer.

With her inability to conform, her absolute compulsion to tell the truth, and her dedication to accurately noting her experiences, she knows this anyway. But what she doesn't know is that the experiences that sustain and enrich her burgeoning talent will one day lead to a new - and entirely unexpected - reality.

Critic Reviews:

'The flavour of this brilliantly witty and agonisingly true-to-life novel is impossible to convey. One even wants to quote endlessly.' (TLS)

'A fiercely funny, eccentric and personal novel.' (The Economist)

Members Reviews:

A wonderful Read

Wry, funny, joyful, moody, like growing up itself. In this novel set in England during WW ll, which seems strongly autobiographical, Jessica Vye, a young English schoolgirl, convinced by a chance encounter that she is indeed going to be a writer, follows--and nudges along--the fate of a poem she has written, which is also a metaphor for the journey she herself is making towards who she is going to be. I found it an irresistible journey, through a world of beautifully realized characters.

Delightful

Charming story of a young girls desire of becoming a writer and the somewhat harrowing journey she took to get there. It's frequently funny and just an enjoyable read

Another of Jane Gardam's best!

Jane Gardam's ability to create interesting and believable characters is unsurpassed. If you liked God on the Rocks, you will love this one, too.

Another terrific read by Gardam

This book will quite sweep you away. At this you find yourself thinking this is more interesting than your own "real life".

rings very true

I had enjoyed the Old Filth trilogy and was very pleased with this book as well. The characters are wonderful and well drawn.