• The Great St. Mary's Day Out

  • A Chronicles of St. Mary's Short Story
  • By: Jodi Taylor
  • Narrated by: Zara Ramm
  • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,603 ratings)

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By: Jodi Taylor
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
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Everyone deserves to get away for a bit. Even the miscreants at St Mary's.

Astonishingly, Dr. Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached. They have to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet, with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost. It doesn't go well, of course.

With Dr Bairstow and Mrs Mack turning a simple visit to a street market into a public brawl, Professor Rapson inadvertently stowing away on a vessel bound for the New World, and Shakespeare himself going up in flames, it would seem that Max, of all people, is the only one actually completing the assignment.

©2016 Jodi Taylor (P)2016 Audible, Ltd

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Saint Mary's Meet Shakespeare

Where does The Great St. Mary's Day Out rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Quite high... this was a lot of fun.

What did you like best about this story?

The circus-like farce in general. Each group of Saint Mary's staff with their own adventures.

Have you listened to any of Zara Ramm’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes, she does an excellent job as usual.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This story was pretty light hearted ad I was laughing out loud several times.

Any additional comments?

This takes place after Lies, Damned Lies, And History and before And The Rest Is History. Contains some spoilers for Lies, Damned Lies, And history. Recommended.

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Wonderful short story - Absolutely Love the St Mary’s series !

Highly recommend The Chronicles of St Mary's series - always waiting for the next book or novella to come out !
A crazy good series - it’s a roller coaster ride with very funny & clever dialogue - & Zara Ramm delivers it beautifully - she is an amazing narrator !
Do yourself a favor & read the series . Actually I highly recommend anything by Jodi Taylor - the Frogmorton Farm books as well as the new series - White Silence !

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Great fun!

You need every book and short story in this series to see the full fabric and design St. Mary’s has to offer the reader. They are fun, timely, and bring our characters closer to us and all the inside jokes we get throughout the series. This one, in particular, was so needed right after the HUGE plot piece we just finished with the prior full story. Cryptic? Yep, but you have to read these in order to get the full roller coaster ride that’s there for you the St. Mary’s series. Can’t wait to dive into the next one!

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This is the best and funniest of all!!!!!

This was just TOO SHORT. Jodi Taylor is just such a terrific writer. Her humor is the best. Her seance of terror or destruction are always so spectacular, I can listen to these books over and over. Zara Ramm does such a great job of performing these books I can't imagine anyone else doing it. I just hope they keep on.

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Stellar as ever

Continues to meet the high standard of the series. Interesting, entertains, and well narrated. If I have a criticism, it is that I prefer the more complex plots of the novel length stories to this short story format. That said, highly recommend.

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disaster magnets

I will never get tired of the endless ways that the inhabitants of St. Marys can find themselves in hilarious trouble.

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Another delightful romp

Sometimes it’s difficult to distill characters from a novel series into short stories. You’re so restricted by space that I find some authors either over explain, or leave too much out while endeavoring to do enough world building, But this was delightful. Just enough clues for a new reader to understand the relationships of the characters, but not enough to bog it down. It was lighthearted and delightful.

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Easily as good as the rest of the series

The Chronicles of St. Mary’s is an especially entertaining series between the time travel and the quirky characters. This short listen is easily up to the entertainment standards of the rest of the series.

This time, as a treat, Dr. Bairstow is offering the staff of St. Mary’s a one-day outing to see the 1601 performance of Hamlet at the Globe Theater – with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost.

The group, which is larger than most of the St. Mary’s expeditions, splits up into three smaller groups. Only one of them actually makes it into the theater for most of the performance. The other two are out causing mayhem throughout London. And these are the people who are not usually troublemakers.

Even though Shakespeare accidentally catches fire and one of the groups almost accidentally sails for America, the adventures on this trip are less dangerous than those on many of the St. Mary’s outings, and everyone comes back alive…

I can’t think of anyone but Zara Ramm who could properly narrate these books.

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Love the narrator and the stories

Love the narrator and the stories. A a a a a a a a a a a e a a

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Most entertaining short story

As usual it was an entertaining romp through history funny and exciting at the same time. Love this series.

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