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Over the Gate

By: Miss Read
Narrated by: Gwen Watford
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A weight-losing recipe sends a portly Victorian housemaid literally sky-high. Mrs Next-Door, the queen of copycats, drives her patient neighbour mad with rage; the tragic tale of the ghost of Fairacre; the touch-and-go romance of Elsie Parker.

In Over the Gate, Miss Read, the village schoolmistress, continues to remember odd incidents and excellent stories and to retell them with characteristic grace and compassion.

©1964 Miss Read' (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Romance Tear-jerking
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Once again a beautiful journey through the eyes of the residents of fairacre … nice easy listening especially on a Sunday afternoon. Brings a kind of peacefulness to the soul.

Another lovely read

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This edition is a welcome and enjoyable addition to the collection most enjoyable and genuine

Excellent as always

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Miss Read transports me to a lovely village with so many interesting characters. Well read by the narrator...its just right and relaxing.

Over the moon with Over The Gate!

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Miss Read was a wonderful writer and I very much enjoyed these short stories. It's wonderful to dive back in time with these stories which are so evocative. The narrator is excellent, she does all the different accents and voices, male and female, very convincingly, and you can hear every word clear as a bell.

Great writer and great narrator

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I prefer books with a more cohesive story but this was enjoyable and very well read.

Good Narration

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