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Rose Cottage Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Mary Stewart (Author), Jilly Bond (Narrator), Hodder & Stoughton (Publisher)

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The last of Mary Stewart's beloved romantic mystery novels, Rose Cottage bears all the romance and intrigue she is known for.

Summer, 1947. Kate Herrick, a war widow, returns to her childhood home for a final visit before the house is sold. But Rose Cottage is not the idyllic paradise she remembers from her youth and someone has been there before her. As Kate uncovers an old secret that haunts the home she thought she knew, she is forced to confront a dark truth from her own past....

Beyond the weedy garden with its riot of rose bushes, nothing had changed. And someone was crossing the bridge to approach the garden gate. Someone I knew well....

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Listening Length	6 hours and 22 minutes
Author	Mary Stewart
Narrator	Jilly Bond
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	07 November 2019
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07NY3D42W
Best Sellers Rank	46,794 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 194 in 20th Century Historical Romance (Audible Books & Originals) 819 in Family Life Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 1,271 in 20th Century Historical Romance (Books)

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Samrosie

... a bucolic setting and a local witches coven Gentle fun Quick

Reviewed in Australia on 15 April 2015

With a bucolic setting and a local witches coven
Gentle fun
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Ms. Erica Wildwood

A gentle gem

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2017

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Some reviewers labour under the misapprehension that this was written 'many decades ago' or was an 'early' or even a first novel. It was in fact Mary Stewart's last book, written when she was 81 (it's all there in the blurb). No, it doesn't have the breathless action and suspense and romance of the earlier books; it is a work of great maturity, gentle yet deep. I get the feeling she drew quite hevily on her own life as a young woman. As always, it's beautifully written. Gorgeous.

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Jo D'Arcy

Cosy, Simple and Gentle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2014

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This I think is not what you normally expect from Mary Stewart, there is not much of the 'other worldly' element to it, nor is it anyway a runaway suspenseful mystery. It is simply a story of Rose Cottage and it's inhabitants as well as the estate where it is located and the village where it all happens.

Kate, returns to Rose Cottage at her grandmother's behest to retrieve family papers and small treasures before the cottage is renovated and reused as part of the estate's future. Kate remembers living their with her mother and grandmother and it being a happy home, despite not knowing her father.

When Kate's Great Aunt Betsy moves in the place changes and it is not as rosy as life could be for a small child. Even more so, when her mother runs off with a gipsy and never returns. The only news that she has died in a bus accident some years later.

Back at her childhood cottage with her childhood friends around her, Kate begins the task she set out to do, retrieve the papers but it seems that someone has got there before her.

Despite the cottage being emptied since Kate's grandmother left, it appears to have been occupied somehow. There have been lights seen. The garden has been dug in places. And a mysterious figure or two has been spotted.

It all seems rather strange and ghostly, but this does not stop Kate facing these ghosts and staying at Rose Cottage to see her task through to the end. Kate finds out a lot about her family through the secrets that Rose Cottage seems to be holding and along with the premonitions from the local witch, and some interfering village gossips, it seems that perhaps it is not all that mysterious and very straightforward.

This was a nice gentle novel. It reflected the lies that are told within families, to either protect them from the past or even the future. Mary Stewart creates an atmosphere with her novels but describing the landscape in detail as well as the life of a little village, where despite a war and a marriage Kate seems to be still known to many. Especially a local lad who she grew up with, but has never ventured very far from his home.

An ideal novel, for a cosy afternoon and if in a cottage then even better.

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Another smasher from Mary Stewart.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2021

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Not her usual type of novel. it's not a thriller with the heroine under threat and people who aren't what they seem to be but having said that it is a great piece of escapism. Beautifully written with believable characters and an almost gentle storyline, it was a joy to read.

CatsAndBooks

Boring - unlike the author's other books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2019

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Having read (and enjoyed) almost all the author's other books, I was delighted to discover that there was one I hadn't red yet. Alas... it's so boring. Chapter after chapter of happy memories and kind people, no action, no suspense, nothing to grab my interest. I read half the book with increasing frustration, then gave up.

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Rose Cottage

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2019

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As a long time fan of Mary Stewart, its lovely to find her books are available in Kindle. Nice easy holiday reading!

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