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|title=Gatty's Tale
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|pages=400
|publisher=Orion Childrens
|date=5 Oct October 2006
|isbn=1842552732
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It is the year of Our Lord 1203. Nine pilgrims set forth from their home on the Welsh borders on a journey to Jerusalem. One of them is Gatty, a village-girl with a singing voice so beautiful it would make your soul ache. Her dream is to follow her childhood friend, Arthur, to the Promised Land. Lady Gwyneth is the kind, gentle pilgrim with a burden to confess. Snout is the cook whose desperate hope is that a miracle in Jerusalem will release him from his disfigurement. Nakin is the crafty merchant, Austin is the devout priest and man of letters, Everard is the cathedral choir master. Emrys is the blacksmith and Tilda, who can't be left behind, is his complaining wife. Nest is the precocious lady's maid. One of them won't make it back.
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|name=Anne Marshall
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|comment= What a fabulously lively & passionate review - if I hadn't already planned to buy this book for my son I certainly would have after reading this.
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|comment= I ordered the audio book of Gatty's Tale (my son is very dyslexic) only to discover it is abridged, which is disappointing & feels discriminatory. I was initially delighted that the book was actually available in audio format, why oh why do 'they' do this?
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|comment= I don't like the idea of abridging books. If parts of the plot weren't needed, why did the author have them in in the first place? If the author thought them necessary, why have they been omitted from the audio version? I think it comes down to producing something as cheaply as possible to be played within a certain time limit. Jill tells me that the unabridged version is often available from Talking Books for the Blind, only not so soon after publication of the book.
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|comment= This is a magical tail that you cant put down from the moment you pick it up, while Gatty is on her journey you are there with her learning the charartistics of each of the other pilgrims.
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I read it at last, and it is, indeed, wonderful! I am very glad I did (as it's the second time I took it out).
What I loved most is that there is not a noticeable anachronism (psychologically, I mean, maybe except for rather too many nice people in proportion to the bad ones) in sight, and despite that you can connect to the characters.
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