The Pig Comes to Dinner, Joseph Caldwell
The Pig Comes to Dinner, Joseph Caldwell
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The Pig Comes to Dinner

Author: Joseph Caldwell

Narrator: Chris Patton

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2011

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

Enjoy a “second helping” from the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through The Pig Did It with this sequel The Pig Came to Dinner.

All of the charming characters of the previous story are also present again: Kitty McCloud and her new husband/former blood enemy Kieran Sweeney have bought an ancient Irish castle with the profits from Kitty’s popular revisions of classic novels like Jane Eyre. Kitty’s American cousin, Aaron McCloud, has arrived to visit with his new wife, the former swineherd Lolly McKeever. With them is a troublesome and unwelcome pig, a wedding gift they are redelivering to Kitty and Kieran.

But over the resulting lighthearted discord hangs a weightier problem: Kitty’s new home is inhabited by a pair of ghosts from out of the castle’s troubled past. How this haunting couple is dealt with serves only to embellish the allure and humor of Mr. Caldwell’s uniquely theatrical storytelling.

About Joseph Caldwell

Joseph Caldwell is an acclaimed playwright and novelist who was awarded the Rome Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of five novels in addition to the Pig Trilogy, a humorous mystery series featuring a crime-solving pig. His most recent memoir, In the Shadow of the Bridge, was published by Delphinium in 2019. Caldwell lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carole

I liked this better than its prequel. I was a little more accumstomed to the author's dry humor, I like his use of words, and the book had a more definitive ending. A favorite quote from the Irish priest: "...one of the few disadvantages of a long life is that so much knowledge is heaped upon my head......more

Goodreads review by K

This is not a good book. I'd give it one star, but I reserve one-star reviews for self-published books that are genuinely awful. This is a professional book, but it's just not any good. I have no idea why people liked the first of the series enough that the publisher was justified in making it a tri......more