The River At Green Knowe, L.M. Boston
The River At Green Knowe, L.M. Boston
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The River At Green Knowe

Author: L.M. Boston

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 3 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/11/2025


Synopsis

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. In this, the third book, Tolly and his grandmother are away (presumably in Cornwall). Two women have rented the house for the summer and ask three children to stay. Ida is the niece of one of the women, Ping and Oskar are refugees. The children are turned loose on the river, where they have many fine and imaginative adventures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on January 15, 2021

A prosaic reader might say this is a story about three children who spend an idyllic summer at a mansion in Cambridgeshire mostly messing about on the river, and in this they wouldn't be wrong. But this is no ordinary mansion, these are no ordinary children, and this is no ordinary river: this is Gr......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on May 31, 2013

I absolutely adored the first two books in L.M. Boston’s Green Knowe series. In the first, The Children of Green Knowe, we meet Toseland, nicknamed Tolly, a boy sent to live with his great-grandmother, Mrs. Oldknow, and three 17th century children who haunt Green Knowe from their painting. In the ne......more

Goodreads review by Joy on September 14, 2013

There are children’s books for children defined by age, and children’s books for everyone’s Inner Child. Boston takes us on a journey through the countryside and the country of unlimited imagination and innocence. Would a modern child be able to travel with her? Two eccentric old women, Dr Maud Biggi......more

Goodreads review by Sirpa on August 09, 2018

No one writes about nature and the countryside as beautifully as do the British. Theirs is a long tradition of noticing, treasuring, and articulating beauty. I grew up with this series and as an adult am so impressed with the authors of this time, like Boston, who never thought to talk down to child......more

Goodreads review by Manuel on May 08, 2022

ENGLISH: Instead of Tolly and his great-grandmother, in this third book of the series the protagonists change. They are three children from 9 to 11 (two of them foreign refugees, a Pole and a Chinese), who dedicate themselves to explore the river near Green Knowe. Ping, the Chinese boy, will become......more