The Girls of Chequertrees


Read by Winnifred Assmann

(4.4 stars; 22 reviews)

Pamela Heath, a pleasant 16-year-old girl living quietly at home with her parents and siblings, receives a peculiar invitation one day. An odd little old man delivers a letter from Emily Crabingway, her mother’s fourth cousin, who wants to know if Pamela will come and look after her house, Chequertrees, for 6 months while she is in Scotland on business. Three other girls will stay there with her. If they all comply with certain conditions (no visits to/from relatives; no letters, only one postcard a month; and stay out of the locked room on the first floor), they will each receive £50 at the end of their stay. Pamela decides to accept the invitation, and the rest of this delightful story is about her experiences at Chequertrees.
Summary by Winnifred Assmann (6 hr 0 min)

Chapters

The Window Opposite 4:57 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Pamela Receives a Strange Invitation 22:02 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Beryl 22:11 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Room With The Locked Door 14:20 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Making Plans 11:14 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Millicent Jackson Gives Some Information 13:42 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Beryl Goes Through an Ordeal 16:30 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Which Concerns a Visit to Inchmoor and a Woman with a Limp 26:07 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Isobel Makes Trouble 26:59 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Pamela Befriends Beryl and Meets Elizabeth Bagg 30:06 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Wishing Well 16:21 Read by Winnifred Assmann
In Which Elizabeth Bagg Paints a Picture and Isobel Hears Some Pleasant News 20:03 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Mr Joseph Sigglesthorne Forgets the Date 16:26 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Caroline Makes a Discovery 11:59 Read by Winnifred Assmann
About a Bazaar and a Meeting in the Ruined Windmill 16:44 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Pamela's Wish Comes True 19:53 Read by Winnifred Assmann
In Which Old Silas Laughs and Isobel Dances 24:34 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Door Is Unlocked 26:55 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Beryl Confesses 11:08 Read by Winnifred Assmann
A New Beginning 7:53 Read by Winnifred Assmann

Reviews

Nice old young adult fiction


(4 stars)

A perfectly good story. Well read. Not especially predictable though I wished the idea was developed more deeply. I will seek more to listen to by both the author and the reader.

Lovely!


(5 stars)

Looking forward to enjoying more of Miss St. John Webb's work. Thank you so much Librivox volunteers and staff for the many, many hours of sheer enjoyment.

enjoyed


(5 stars)

Cute story. I disagreed with the other review, thought the ended appropriately. Exceptional reader, many thanks!

where's the rest


(1 stars)

it ended before it was finished


(5 stars)

Good book. The reader was excellent.