Sally on the Rocks


Read by Anne Fletcher

(4.7 stars; 30 reviews)

Sally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hopes for the future except a safe, if loveless, marriage.. Little Crampton has its complement of “typical” villagers – the pompous bank manager, the local gossip, the ageing parson – but this is spring 1915, and the young men are away fighting and dying in the Great War. Farms and businesses are struggling to exist, families are grieving and there are not many marriage prospects for a spirited, worldly young woman.

Sally's story is told with a mixture of wry humour, cynical observation and bitter anti-war sentiments that make this novel an interesting, emotional but never sentimental view of "English village life". (Summary by Anne Fletcher ) (10 hr 37 min)

Chapters

The new bank manager is a bachelor, and simply rolling 28:30 Read by Anne Fletcher
I am absolutely on the rocks, Lovey 27:35 Read by Anne Fletcher
Isn't there a man called Bingley? 8:34 Read by Anne Fletcher
Gracious, what a husband for 'Mrs Alfred Bingley!' 23:04 Read by Anne Fletcher
You needn't be afraid your nose will ever be put out of joint 5:34 Read by Anne Fletcher
You can put on your boots without a chair 22:53 Read by Anne Fletcher
I hope I don't disturb your rest? 20:37 Read by Anne Fletcher
Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost. 27:41 Read by Anne Fletcher
I am sick of the war 29:40 Read by Anne Fletcher
Stop! ..Oh you little idiot. 30:38 Read by Anne Fletcher
What on earth are you doing here? 13:40 Read by Anne Fletcher
Jimmy, is that the girl you told me about? 22:02 Read by Anne Fletcher
I might have known she would fail me. 8:50 Read by Anne Fletcher
What sort of an Italian tour? 19:36 Read by Anne Fletcher
Won't you give me another chance? 19:49 Read by Anne Fletcher
You are hateful! I wish I hadn't saved you. 26:09 Read by Anne Fletcher
Here's luck to my husband's wife 29:42 Read by Anne Fletcher
I am afraid we are lost, my very dear Miss Sally 20:10 Read by Anne Fletcher
But perhaps bank-managers don't curl? 39:54 Read by Anne Fletcher
Oh, Mr Bingley. what a mercy you are safe! 19:07 Read by Anne Fletcher
I think he's set on not getting better - dying belike, Miss Sally 12:31 Read by Anne Fletcher
Will you stay with me to the end? 9:14 Read by Anne Fletcher
Parson's Sally is to marry Mr Bingley of the bank 18:29 Read by Anne Fletcher
How fond you are of the Mountain! 14:46 Read by Anne Fletcher
After all, what could Mother really know? She wasn't a man 19:25 Read by Anne Fletcher
I am lower than the beasts that perish 11:23 Read by Anne Fletcher
Sally? Sally! 15:10 Read by Anne Fletcher
Then I also give you a week 15:23 Read by Anne Fletcher
Just fancy if there was a divorce in Litte Crampton, Mr Bingley! 23:20 Read by Anne Fletcher
I never guessed there were two of me 17:32 Read by Anne Fletcher
Even the "Soft Job" has got to be paid for 17:07 Read by Anne Fletcher
In the midst of death 2:58 Read by Anne Fletcher
I did some hustle for a husband 16:16 Read by Anne Fletcher

Reviews


(4 stars)

Excellent reader - one of my favorites! The book is well written and entertaining if you like early twentieth century village society novels . Still, with a different reader I know I would not have enjoyed it nearly as much. I hope she will read more for us !

a study in old time husband hunting


(5 stars)

I enjoyed listening to the characters internal dialog as the story progressed. Not much external action but plenty of emotional turmoil. Good reader for this story.

Very intriguing book.


(5 stars)

This book is beautifully read by Annie. I highly recommend this book!


(5 stars)

A very satisfying listen. Great reading, too! Thank you so much.

very interesting read


(4.5 stars)

Very enjoyable to listen to!

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(5 stars)

Enjoyed . Great story. Great reader.