The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Yawn. Another gruff old rich guy who finds love. Bah Humbug!
The narrator, Richard Armitage, did a marvelous job of acting/reading this. It made a nice bedtime story. But mostly I was irritated that the story was about the mean guy finding love and not the children or their mother who worked so hard at making life loving and kind. Even the guy who instituted the children as hirelings would have made a better story. The rich old codger made me worry about the little girl he was so fascinated by. Sure it was ‘innocent’ still it was shudder-inducing for me.
Still, for a freebie from Audible, I guess I shouldn’t complain–much.
If you love the Dicken’s Carol garbage, you’ll love this.
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