The Girls of Chequertrees
Marion St. John Webb
Read by Winnifred Assmann
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Pamela Heath, a pleasant 16-year-old girl living quietly at home with her parents and siblings, receives a peculiar invitation one day. An odd little old man delivers a letter from Emily Crabingway, her mother’s fourth cousin, who wants to know if Pamela will come and look after her house, Chequertrees, for 6 months while she is in Scotland on business. Three other girls will stay there with her. If they all comply with certain conditions (no visits to/from relatives; no letters, only one postcard a month; and stay out of the locked room on the first floor), they will each receive £50 at the end of their stay. Pamela decides to accept the invitation, and the rest of this delightful story is about her experiences at Chequertrees.
Summary by Winnifred Assmann (6 hr 0 min)
Chapters
The Window Opposite | 4:57 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Pamela Receives a Strange Invitation | 22:02 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Beryl | 22:11 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
The Room With The Locked Door | 14:20 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Making Plans | 11:14 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Millicent Jackson Gives Some Information | 13:42 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Beryl Goes Through an Ordeal | 16:30 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Which Concerns a Visit to Inchmoor and a Woman with a Limp | 26:07 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Isobel Makes Trouble | 26:59 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Pamela Befriends Beryl and Meets Elizabeth Bagg | 30:06 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
The Wishing Well | 16:21 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
In Which Elizabeth Bagg Paints a Picture and Isobel Hears Some Pleasant News | 20:03 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Mr Joseph Sigglesthorne Forgets the Date | 16:26 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Caroline Makes a Discovery | 11:59 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
About a Bazaar and a Meeting in the Ruined Windmill | 16:44 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Pamela's Wish Comes True | 19:53 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
In Which Old Silas Laughs and Isobel Dances | 24:34 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
The Door Is Unlocked | 26:55 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Beryl Confesses | 11:08 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
A New Beginning | 7:53 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Reviews
Nice old young adult fiction
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Stella McQueen
A perfectly good story. Well read. Not especially predictable though I wished the idea was developed more deeply. I will seek more to listen to by both the author and the reader.
Lovely!
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Mrs. VLB
Looking forward to enjoying more of Miss St. John Webb's work. Thank you so much Librivox volunteers and staff for the many, many hours of sheer enjoyment.
enjoyed
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Kytoga
Cute story. I disagreed with the other review, thought the ended appropriately. Exceptional reader, many thanks!
where's the rest
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Elaine Pease
it ended before it was finished
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Ms SV
Good book. The reader was excellent.