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Title: Charity Girl
Author: Georgette Heyer
Narrator: Daniel Philpott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-01-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 299 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless, homeless waif in the engaging shape of Cherry Steane, who else should he turn to in such a scrape but his childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? And although they refused to oblige their parents by marrying, they have always been the best of friends.
But as Desford pursues Cherry's grandfather and father around the seedier fringes of society, Hetta is forced to wonder if he might not, at last, have fallen in love. Without the timely intervention of his brother Simon, and Hetta's suitor Gary Nethercott, Desford is in danger of making a rare jumble of his affairs.
Members Reviews:
Funny and Charming Heyer Classic
What did you love best about Charity Girl?
One of my favorite Heyers! Begins with a marvelous scene with the hero and his father just classic Heyer. Both the hero and heroine are delightful, as were all the minor characters. I loved the heros mother and younger brother, and many of the other minor characters were hilarious. Lots of humor and an appealing, intelligent, and mature central couple all of the best aspects of Heyer to me.Philpott is also my favorite Heyer narrator. He voices all the different characters so well, male and female, and has a wonderful voice to listen to.
What did you like best about this story?
The humor, the characters, and the marvelous narration.
Which scene was your favorite?
Either the wonderful scene at the beginning with Desford and his father, or the madcap and touching end to the book.
Any additional comments?
One of the best Heyer audios on Audible.
Not my favorite - worth a listen but not a credit
What does Daniel Philpott bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?
I know that I enjoyed this story more with the reader then I would have if I had just read it.
Any additional comments?
My favorite Georgette Heyer books have more interaction between the main characters. But Desford spends a lot of time looking for Charity's relatives. There were also a few too many pontificating relatives for me. If you like Heyer books because of the glimpse it gives you into that time, you might enjoy knowing more about a healing town other than Bath. The book was free for me, and well worth a free listen. But I would not have wanted to use a credit for it.
Painful
There is a big difference between reading a story and telling a story! I'm going to give up on this book. The Readers delivery of this book is so distracting, poorly paced, with terrible voice characterizations that I can't continue.
I have a dozen or more audio performances of Heyer novels. Most are done quite well. This one is giving me a stomach ache. I give up!
Short but very sweet
A lovely little Heyer, often overlooked. It starts slowly but its humor - so charmingly amplified by Daniel Philpott's voices - makes this a laugh a minute.
There are many of the author's typical contrivances -- patriarch with gout, honorable young man trying to live up to his honor despite society's ready attempts at gossip and scandal, the winning, ape-leader heroine at an age past 25, the character with a hazy past despite being mostly of good family, and the secondary romance among secondary characters, lots of dashing here and there, from southern England to the the North and even west to Bath.
