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The Copper Peacock and Other Stories

By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: Penelope Keith
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With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease. The stories are: 'A Pair of Yellow Lilies', 'Paperwork', 'Mother’s Hel'p, 'Long Live the Queen', 'Dying Happy', 'The Copper Peacock', 'Weeds', 'The Fish-Sitter', and 'An Unwanted Woman'.

©1991 Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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This is an outstanding audible book both for the brilliance of the Ruth Rendell’s stories and the matching quality of Penelope Keith’s narration.

Ruth and Penelope at their besy

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I wasn’t expecting to hear a Ruth Randell read by Penelope Keith, absolutely loved these short stories defintely finished wanting more.

Penelope Keith narrator what a nice surprise

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Wonderfully engaging short stories. I'm not sure about the reviews that describe her characters as 'dark' and 'unpleasant' as if that's a bad thing. That underbelly of human existence is Rendell's trademark and she does it so well.
Lovely to see a little Wexford in there. And Keith's narration was exemplary. I only know her from her 'posh' tv characters and was very pleasantly surprised to see that she has brilliant repertoire of some pretty diverse characters.
Very enjoyable, and on the free list!

Classic Rendell in little bits

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Penelope Keith was delightful as the many voices of the characters, unfortunately this compilation was not RR's best example of her work.

I don't mind that sometimes the reader/listener has to work out what happened, but on more than one occassion I jthought the author had run out of time, and/or ideas, and/or patience and just decided to work on another project... so the reader/listener is just left scratching their head.

OK but just weird, obscure and underdone

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