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    The River At Green Knowe
    The River At Green Knowe
    The River At Green Knowe
    Audiobook3 hours

    The River At Green Knowe

    Written by L.M. Boston

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    About this audiobook

    L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. In this, the third book, Tolly and his grandmother are away (presumably in Cornwall). Two women have rented the house for the summer and ask three children to stay. Ida is the niece of one of the women, Ping and Oskar are refugees. The children are turned loose on the river, where they have many fine and imaginative adventures.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 1987
    ISBN9781593163389
    The River At Green Knowe

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    • 4/5
      Well-written book; the author is, thankfully, not afraid to use big words and think about important things. There is an evil character in the story and kindness alone is not enough to defeat her; i.e., it is a disturbing story.
    • 4/5
      Nice, though I don't enjoy their magical adventures as much as Tolly's - they're sort of disconnected and random. The descriptions, however, are even better - when they close their eyes and tell what they hear on the river, it's wonderful. A bit of casual racism at the beginning; Hsu doesn't seem to mind being called Ping, and in fact he's as talkative as either of the others, but still. And more of the same at their first meal. Hmph. There's a faint flavor of Swallows and Amazons to some of their adventures, though S&A never had the magic touch most of theirs do. Fun, though not my favorite Green Knowe story. And it ends very abruptly - I was expecting at least a leavetaking, but it just stops.
    • 4/5
      This is completely different to the first two books. There's no sign of Tolly, or Mrs Oldknowe, or any of their ancestors, and even Green Knowe itself is barely featured. Instead we have two maiden ladies renting the house and inviting three children, two of them Displaced Orphans, to stay for the summer. Their adventures on the river are tinged with Swallows-and-Amazons-ishness, and the magic encountered is completely different to, and far less charming than, the timeslippage of the earlier books. I'm not entirely sure I really liked it. But, then again, it's possible that I have still not outgrown my early crush on Toby … Also, Lucy Boston seems to have hated cats, so clearly she and I would never agree.
    • 2/5
      The Premise: Three children come to spend the holidays at Green Knowe, an ancient house on an island in the middle of the river. Two of the children, Oskar & Ping, are displaced children and the third, Ida, is the niece of the woman who is renting the house while working on a book about giants. The children, all around 11 years old, spend most of their time out on the river discovering other islands.My Take on the Book: This wasn't the book I thought it was. I remember loving a book about Green Knowe when I was growing up and I think it might be The Children of Green Knowe. I found this one difficult to get into and cannot imagine liking it as a child. The children find some fantastical things on their island searches (on one, there are flying horses), but the author doesn't spend any time on any particular spot and therefore loses opportunities to enhance to book. I need to find The Children of Green Knowe and reread that because this was a disappointment.