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Appalling male voices - all sounded like thugs! Just read and don't act.
Bit of a cheesy storyline.
Much too long

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laryngitis outbreak?

Would you listen to Wild Oats again? Why?

No, loads of the characters sounded like they had laryngitis.

What did you like best about this story?

it was cute and cheerful and inoffensive

How could the performance have been better?

If half the characters didn't sound like they were recovering from some sort of horrific throat complaint.
It wasn't even just the men!

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Nice chick lit awful regional accents!

Lovely chick lit, nothing too unpredictable with lots of interesting characters - I really enjoyed it.
However - the narrator has some terrible Stereo-typical regional accents, I'm from this part of the country and I can assure you no one sounds like that!! She's also not very good at the male parts.

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good book

loved it ..good holiday book to relax to, lots if characters possible giving the narrator a hard job to do as some characters sounded the same

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Spoilt by narration

I really enjoyed the story, Veronica Henry's books are always good. But it was spoilt for me by the dreadful portrayal of the characters. Young men and women sounded old and frail and all the voices would have been better just in the narrator's own voice It was hard to understand the characters with such awful voices and spoilt what was a good read.

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Great story..... rubbish accents

A feel good book, with a good storyline and lots of ups and downs although the accents of the narrator were rubbish and quite annoying.

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Annoying voices and accents of the characters

I loved the story line but it was some what ruined by the narrators attempt at male voices plus the accents grated on my nerves at times.

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Great lighthearted story not so great male voices

A nice easy listening book with some good twists and turns but narrator isn't good with the male voices as others have said.

I did enjoy it and pushing that aside a good book in all.

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The strangest male 'voices' I've ever heard!

The book's actually quite enjoyable. I thought it was a continuation of Veronica Henry's Honeycote series but it's a complete stand alone.

Good variety of storylines and mix of characters that interweave and keep the interest going. Some aspects are pretty unbelievable (I suggest everyone avoids the local GP if he can't distinguish between a stroke and depression) and other aspects do stretch credulity, but no spoilers.

On the whole it's a light, enjoyable read / listen, apart from the male voices. One reviewer likens them to a mass outbreak of laryngitis, and that's a good description. I can just imagine the poor girl in the studio being directed to "make the men's voices deeper". They all, without exception, end up sounding like the late great Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners after a very very rough night!

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Entertaining

Overall this was a good story, although a bit predictable. I wasn't keen on the narrator's voices for the different characters. This was an entertaining book but I don't think I would listen to it again.

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