![]() ![]() ![]() Kouma's characterisation is not bad at all, giving us the very believable light touch of the rather lovely (despite everything) Tony and the sadness and worry of Sophia - and as with all Stewart's practical heroes, Max sounds good. ![]() It's of its time, as all Mary Stewart books are, The Boy meets Girl is from a more innocent age, but the murder and general nastiness is not. Seriously? Nobody had heard of psychiatry? But apart from the limited knowledge of pronunciation, this was good. That’s a shame as someone could have guided her: the saddest was Psyche - we got sickie all the way through. ![]() I'm assuming that as this seems to be her first narration for Audible? Some unfamiliar words do defeat her, (deprecate was pronounced depreciate and it seems nobody in the studio had heard of the Levites, who became levity). Language evolves, we all know that, and it's been interesting to hear how this, one of her earliest and best loved novels from the 1960s, (Hayley Mills was young when they filmed it) would sound in the hands of a young 21C female actor. The balance, mainly her later, shorter, titles are due to follow in November. Those of us who are Mary Stewart aficionados have been so pleased over these past few months to find all of her books have been, or are about to be, recorded unabridged (thanks Audible). ![]()
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