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Anne of Athelhampton and the Riddle of the Apes

By: Giles Keating
Narrated by: Jess Moran
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A Tudor intrigue: feisty 12-year old Anne battles betrayal within her own family as she searches the secret rooms behind the paneling of Athelhampton Hall for clues to solve the Riddle. Why has her grasping cousin Young John bought her a pet ape from the Dorsetshire pirates?

Plucked from her dreary school-room lessons into an adult world, she slips into the rush-lit murk of the Great Hall at night dressed as a boy-actor to defeat one threat. But she discovers that to save herself requires more of others than she is prepared to ask.

This is the first of the Anne of Athelhampton trilogy, which is inspired by true historical events and characters from England's Dorsetshire in the 1500s. It is written by Giles Keating, who lives in Athelhampton's Tudor rooms just as Anne did five hundred years ago and who welcomes visitors to see the secret passages that she discovered, and the symbols in stone that she searched out to solve the Riddle.

It is read by Jess Moran, who has wide experience in narrating historical novels and other audiobooks. Jess' reading re-creates the world of Anne, racing along the stone floors of Athelhampton with her pet ape Endy to save her friends from Young John! Cover art is by local artist Noah Warnes.

©2021 Giles Keating (P)2024 Giles Keating Historical Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Fiction Mystery
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I really rather enjoyed this slightly quirky tale based on a real country house that you can still visit to this day and be as described in the book. Rather regret not visiting myself now as was right in the area last summer!

The story is quite straightforward and ticks along quite nicely and the narrator does a good job with the main character especially. The only thing lacking I feel was perhaps just a paragraph or two of exposition early on, just to describe the time period involved and why the central plot element was so important at that time... but would seem trivial to many modern readers who are not familiar with that time in history.

Will certainly be looking out for the next in the series and the further adventures of Anne!

Enjoyable slightly quirky historical tale.

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It is a pleasant, gentle story from the point of view of a young girl. The ape added interest and there is some mild danger. The characters and the narration are good.

A easy read suitable for young readers

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