Kitty Alone

excellent reading & an unexpected story

(5 stars)

jaded_grl

from the summary, i thought this was going to be a sweet little love story... so the murder, attemped murders, arson, fraud, etc took me totally off guard. it was an excellent story, there was a sweet love story in it as well. the characters all had amazing personalities. the reader did a very nice job reading crisp & clear (and singing).

Kitty Alone

(5 stars)

TheBookworm

Charming rendition of a Thomas Hardy-esque (well, sort of...) novel of rural life. The story is well constructed and the characters are, by and large, three dimensional -- Kate's father may be the best drawn. It's not hard to see the one with whom the author, a C of E clergyman, identifies. MaryAnn has a pleasant voice. Her reading is low key and does not impose itself on the listener. She has a fine singing voice, too. The sound quality of this recording is high. Thank you! TheBookworm (Manchester, UK)

Excellent

(4.5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

I needed a book with mold twists and a happy ending, this was it. Thank you Librivox and MaryAnn. A fabulous reading with singing. Perfect!

A good read/listen

(5 stars)

JackiLyn Friesen

Just muster thru the first few chapters... speed up the playback or whatever you need to do to get thru the wordy parts... this is a captivating book with unexpected twists and turns. It is very well read! The amount of chapters may intimidate you, but they are short ones, stopping at just the wrong/right? places, so that you must continue on to the next one. And now, it is 12:30am and high time for me to get to bed! 🥱

Really enjoyed this

(4 stars)

ClaireLA

Mary Ann does a fine job reading this tale of a young girl, Kitty, who is alone in the real sense of being among very few people who understand her. Great well-drawn characters in this book along with a good story. I should mention that I really enjoyed the parts where Mary Ann sings. She has a lovely voice, well-suited to the old bits of songs sprinkled throughout the book.

(5 stars)

lizzy

The protagonist committed all the deadly sins or would have if the fire had been successful. So I guess since he thought he was killing he did commit them all. I felt so sorry for poor Kitty. There were glimpses of happiness at times for mostly Kitty. It had a wonderful narrator and she sang like you imagine they would have back then. Thank you LibriVox for a most enjoyable read.

Romance Lies & Surprises

(4 stars)

TLocke

Anyone who has lived in a small town will recognize the patterns of behavior in this book. The expectations of who will marry whom; expected behaviors of natives vs outsiders. The chapter on the town orchestra playing a newly-minted "Masterpiece" and facing moral decisions of attributed guilt is hilarious. The story is well read.

good yarn

(5 stars)

The Momtionary

Romance, nature appreciation, coming of age, reflection on human nature, plot twists. Reader does overall very good job with lovely singing, smooth sentence follow-through, and character voices. She consistently mispronounces author's name and a few certain words, not many, though. Like another reviewer said, there are Victorian attitudes, no surprise, Baring-Gould lived through Queen Victoria's reign.