
For All the World
The Aisling Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Siobhan Waring
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Gary Furlong
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Jean Grainger
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By:
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Jean Grainger
Dublin, Ireland 1915
Eighteen-year-old May Gallagher is beautiful but restless, and longs for the freedom to live her own life, to decide her own destiny. Mollycoddled as the only remaining child of middle-class parents in the suburbs, she sneaks out to the theatre when she can. She is mesmerised by the captivating actor Peter Cullen, and wishes she could enjoy a more bohemian life.
The Great War is taking all the boys away, and the promise that it will all be over by Christmas is ringing more hollow with each passing month.
Her parents would be appalled if they knew she’d befriended the enigmatic Peter, who was from the wrong side of the city, but there is something about him that intrigues May.
When catastrophe strikes Peter, it’s to May that he turns, and in that moment she knows her life will never be the same again.
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Anything by Jean Grainger takes you away and warms your soul
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Jean’s narration is quite unpleasant. Sorry!
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Good, but not great and quite old-fashioned.
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Good, but not her best
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The beginning of the book was VERY slow. I enjoyed the character, Peter Callen and his enthusiasm for his profession and life in general, which is amazing considering his horrible upbringing with his violent, alcoholic father and living in one of the worst slums in Dublin.
May…she’s more STALKER than girlfriend! She is immature at best, and just plain whiny at worst. May is incredibly immature and insecure. If Peter so much as mentions in one of his letters to her, one of the women in his letter or the others in the show or their acts, and is not professing his undying love as she expects him to (when he talks about what’s going on in HIS life), May is very annoyed that every word isn’t about HER and their “love.”
May talked PETER into getting engaged. Marriage was not his idea at all, nor was it even a a blip on his radar at that point. He is uncertain that May and the life he wants will work out if paired. He is not at all certain marriage to May is a life he can be happy living. When Peter writes to May, if he doesn’t profess his undying love to her, May’s jealousy and insecurities rise to the forefront.
I enjoyed the characters of Aida and Two Suits, the burley Scotsman (my family is Scottish, so I always love the Scottish characters and their accents). Nick was O.K, but rather bland.
As always, narrator Siobhan Waring was absolutely fantastic. She has a gorgeous, natural Irish accent, but she is also absolutely AMAZING with various other languages — English cockney, posh upper class English, Scottish, German, Spanish and Ukrainian, to just mention a few.
I was not sure I would purchase the next two books in this series, but to find out the next two books are not available in audio form, that sealed the deal for me.
I am extremely annoyed with Audible for publishing this first book in audio format, but NOT books Two and Three. HIGHLY IRRITATING! If I were desperate to read the next two books, I could switch to hearing the book thru Speechify, but the speech thru “Ai” despite the paid, voice talents available for the reader to choose from, is still very stiff and “automated.”
This has also happened with my other favorite author’s books (Kay Bratt). I invested in a dozen books or so in the Taylor Hart series, only to find the last two books are available in print format only (or on Kindle).
As a person with VERY low vision, I rely on Audible to make audio books AVAILABLE TO ALL readers. Speechify just isn’t the same (not even it close).
SHAME ON YOU AUDIBLE!
DISAPPOINTING — NOT MS. GRAINGER’S BEST…
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Well this
For All the World
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Descriptions of the front.
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Thanks, Jean, for opening my eyes to the history of Ireland as I enjoy time with your fictional characters.
New Characters, New Settings… Hooked Anew
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No conclusion and no Book 2 on Audible
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