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Silver on the Tree

By: Susan Cooper
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
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The final volume of Susan Cooper's brilliant and absorbing fantasy sequence known as The Dark Is Rising.

The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton--last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free--must join forces with his ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles and that brings Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satisfying close.©1977 Susan Cooper; (P)2002 Random House, Inc., Listening Library, an Imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group Arthurian Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths Fiction Primary Education Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy
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Love this but please can't you get 'Over sea, under stone' and 'The dark is rising'?

Final part of one of my favourite sequences

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I love all these books and this is almost an excellent rendition...it's such a shame that the little research it would have taken to get the Welsh pronunciation correct was not done. The, otherwise, engaging performance is however marred by the garbled approximation of the Welsh.

Almost excellent

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Excellent story however as someone who has lived in the village of Aberdyfi for over 40 years it a pity Alex Jennings didn't learn how to pronounce Aberdyfi correctly as well as other Welsh words and place names in the story.

Excellent story poor pronunciation

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I have been fond of Susan Cooper’s books for a long time. I just had fun listening to the dark is rising but when I heard the Silver on the tree I could not under the crass stupidity in having a narrator whose grasp of Welsh was simply appalling. I don’t know if he realised that Wales is a country of many dialects, both English and Welsh. The narrator of the Grey King was brilliant and understood to the subtlety of colloquial welsh. I think you need to re-,record the book as soon as possible.

Very bad use Welsh

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Love this series, and the 4th book was read by someone who was excellent at pronouncing all the Welsh. This reader wasn't at all good. This made for a disappointing and annoying listen as a Welsh speaker, particularly as the correct pronunciation is carefully explained by one of the characters to another during the 4th book !

Frustrating listen if you speak Welsh

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