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|title=Strong Winds Trilogy: The Salt-Stained Book
|author=Julia Jones and Claudia Myatt
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=272
|publisher=Golden Duck
For another rebooting of a well-respected story we can recommend [[Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy by Andy Briggs]].
'''September 2014''' I can't believe that it's more than three years since I read The Salt-Stained Book as it's one of those stories that lingers in your mind, but I didn't hesitate when I was offered the chance to listen to an audio version narrated by Anna Bentinck. I was stunned. The story is as good as ever (have you ever reread a book and been just a little bit disappointed?) and even though I knew exactly what would happen I was still completely swept up in the story. Part of this is obviously Julia Jones' plot, but the narration is superb. If asked before I listened to the book I would have said that a 'good reader' could narrate a story, but Bentinck moves reading into a different profession. She's - for want of a better term - a voice artist, capturing each individual character perfectly and bringing them to life. I listened as though to a play with a narrator. The story is just short of eight hours long, but I listened to the first six without a break and only stopped then because my husband pointed out that supper was long overdue and the excuse that I wanted to know what happened next didn't really hold water. If I was taking children on an 'are we nearly there?' journey I'd have this playing in the car. Everyone will enjoy it and the trip will go by in a flash. You might even get away with playing it again on the way home. {{amazontext|amazon=1899262040}} {{waterstonestext|waterstones=8456373}}
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