Aunt Dimity's Christmas

By: Nancy Atherton

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Lori Shepherd and her family spend Christmas in the cottage willed to her by her late Aunt Dimity, but when she discovers a stranger barely alive in the snow, she teams up with a priest and together they unveil the tragic secret that led the stranger to her door.

©1999 Nancy T. Atherton (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Good story. Not the best narrator.

I liked the story. At one point, the main character says "I said stiffly." Unfortunately that descrices the majority of the narration. While it's easy enough to distinguish the separate voices as separate characters, nearly every word is clipped and perfunctory. This seriously takes away from the enjoyment of the story.

Cannily good writing, warm-hearted, funny and fun.

Any additional comments?

I love Nancy Atherton's books. Her writing is so transparently simple yet so well constructed (in the untraceable way only a good writer does) that the simplicity is sort of a disguise for actually very fine, clever writing and wit. I love the playfulness of the doings and plot moves. I love that some INTELLIGENT writers still write stories of playfulness and as if innocence is still an element in the human psyche instead of depending on the lure of horror, evil and socio-pathology to grab interest and sell books. What a relief. I love that she brings "magic" into her plots by means of a sometimes talking stuffed animal - - so ridiculous, outrageous that it's FUNNY . . . with vapors that it's maybe kinda' sorta' true considering the range and strange ways of intuition - - and of course, the redoubtable spirit of Aunt Dimity. Atherton has a delightful imagination. Grown-ups need magic and imagination too! And within the play of her stories are love AND some deeper wisdoms and insights delivered no less truly for being rendered with a light hand.

OK but not my favorite.

I struggled to maintain interest for the first half of the book and thankfully it got improved towards the end. I didn't care for Lor's weird sexual attraction to the priest. Linden's narration hadn't bothered me too much in the previous books but in this book, it was too slow and robotic. I had to speed it up to make it through. I have one more Audible edition in my library and will likely switch to the ebooks after that.

Horrible performance

I can't understand why this was allowed to happen. Another reviewer said it was like a robot... Exactly my thought. It was like a computer. Miserable. Why so slow and over enunciated?

Cozy Christmas Tale

I love the Aunt Dimity Series ... It reminded me what Christmas is all about and even when you are going thru hard times there is hope. Focus on what's important - in this installment Lori finds a stranger half dead on her doorstep. True to Lori fashion she doesn't just gets him medical help but solves the mystery around him and helps a homeless and lost vagabond to a new life.

I actually like the narrator Teri Clark Linden. She gives life to the different characters as much as the author does.

It's the kind of book you can re-listen to multiple times and never get bored.