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Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two
- A Gypsy Family’s Hard and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father's campfire on ancient verges, poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed, common land was fenced off and the traditional ways disappeared.
Eventually Maggie married a house-dweller and tried to settle for bricks and mortar, but she never lost the restless spirit, the deep love of the land and the gift for storytelling that were her Romani inheritance.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-05-18
bygone times
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to Maggie reliving her life and telling it how it was through the hard and the good of a Romany travellers bygone way of life. Sad that those traditions and cultural ways will be lost due to ignorance and modern ideals. Lovely that Maggie has chose to share those memories so we can have an idea of what it was like to be a true Romany traveller .
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- Emily thomas
- 06-02-15
a good read
it's such a shame that the travelling communities are treated this way, seeing their way of life through a young child's perspective realising that it is a cultural difference and a way of life, threaten by our laws which are suppose to protect people from discrimination.
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- Diana King
- 21-12-20
An interesting read
A good insight to traveller life on the road. Some interesting happy and sad tales.
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- Teresa & Kieron Allen
- 21-05-17
Great audio version
Where does Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It was the first so I am looking forward to listening to more the same sort of story
What was one of the most memorable moments of Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two?
listening about the old granny and remembering back to my childhood
Have you listened to any of Patience Tomlinson’s other performances? How does this one compare?
no not yet
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes
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loved it
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- jayceeemm
- 09-09-19
Moving story of travellers and their struggles
A very well written and documented story of the gypsy and traveler communities and their struggles with local authority’s who don’t want them in their communities. I have worked with and for gypsy’s / travellers and never had anything but admiration for them. I would stand up for them against a lot of so called Christian community’s.
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- l.marshall
- 03-02-23
Very informative and enjoyable
The narration was a bit annoying but presumably was agreed by the author in which case okay with me. I thought she made the characters sound a bit silly. However I thoroughly enjoyed the book
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-09-21
Great book, took me back some years.
My village in Hertfordshire always welcomed the gypsy families, I never saw my mother use a single peg on her washing which wasn't made and sold by those lovely old ladies of the road.
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- Sarah shailes
- 10-05-20
brilliant
I loved this book that much I bought it in paperback brilliantly read. the lady that reads the book makes it feel like your there with them I highly recommend it to you all
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- Net
- 10-06-20
Good read
a lovely story of a Romany family and their way of life throught the eyes of their daughter
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- Westley
- 25-02-18
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Beautiful written book about the hardships of being a Romany traveler and about are culture Maggie is a true inspiration.
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