The Perilous Gard

By: Elizabeth Marie Pope

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Kate Sutton is all arms and legs. She possesses none of her sister Alicia’s honey-eyed beauty, but is intelligent and willful like her grandfather. It is an injustice, then, when Kate is falsely accused of Alicia’s wrongdoing and is banished to remote Elvenwood Hall. But the world Kate encounters in Derbyshire, England, is so strange and otherworldly that she has little time for regret. Elvenwood Hall has another, secret name - the Perilous Gard - and a mysterious history to go with it. It isn’t long before Kate has a hundred questions about her new home. Who are the Fairy Folk? What is Master John’s dark intent? And who is the Lady in the Green? Soon, she is deep in a terrifying adventure and a daring attempt to rescue Christopher Heron from strange and unimaginable forces.

©1974 Elizabeth Marie Pope (P)1992 Recorded Books

wonderful

loved it all - book and narration. I enjoyed this rendition so very much. thank you

Over and Over

I've been listening to audiobooks for a long time now, but I rarely listen to one more than once. This is an exception. I could listen to this over and over again (and I have). I love this story. Kate Sutton is an excellent heroine. She's strong and smart, but she makes mistakes. The author spends the perfect amount of time on description. Her characters and her settings spring to life in my mind. I own a hard copy of this book, too, because I love it so much, but Jill Tanner's narration is so good. I had listened to this book before I read it for the first time, and I was afraid I wouldn't like the book as much as I liked the audio because the audio is so fantastic. Oftentimes for me, great audio covers up flaws in the writing, but this book combines a fabulous book with a wonderful narrator.

I’ve loved this book since I was a child

I’ve read this book a thousand times. I’ve listened to it even more than that. This was my favorite book as a kid. I stumbled upon it by accident in my neighborhood library and I read it at least three or four times a year. There are a couple of places where the recording was a little garbled and a couple of spots where I would have read the inflection differently but I love this book.

Like Fine Wine

I've read this book 5 or 6 times now and it only gets better and better. There are so many nuances and depths to be discovered that it is like a bottomless well. The narration is so well done that it becomes transparent as it brings to life Katherine and Christopher and all the folk of the Gard and the Hill.

The very best story, but clumsy narration

One of the best stories ever! I absolutely love the unique, fascinating plot and strong characters. However, the narrator misses way too many dialogue tags. She’s expressive enough, but constantly chooses the wrong emotion to read the characters’ lines, especially if the speech tag occurs after the characters’ words. It’s like it’s her first reading of the story ever, and she doesn’t bother returning to fix misread dialogue. Very annoying.