

With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed
Author: Lynne Truss
Narrator: Robert Bathurst
Unabridged: 5 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 07/15/2008
Author: Lynne Truss
Narrator: Robert Bathurst
Unabridged: 5 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 07/15/2008
Lynne Truss is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which sold nearly one million copies and won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. A novelist and journalist, she is also the author of numerous radio comedy dramas.
Robert Bathurst, an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator, won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Male Narrator in 2020. He is an English actor who played David Marsden in five seasons of the series Cold Feet and the title role in My Dad’s the Prime Minister. In addition to his other television credits—which include The Stepfather, White Teeth, The Safe House, Goodbye, Mr. Steadman, and Hornblower—he has also appeared many times on stage in such productions as The Three Sisters, Hedda Gabler, and Alarms and Excursions.
Highly amusing, especially since I am a freelance magazine writer and editor. Terrific characters. I listened to an audio book; the British narrator was great (except that his American characters sounded more like Australians). Couldn't stop listening--I dragged the book with me from car to kitchen an......more
An enjoyable and amusing read with some genuinely funny parts. Quite farcical with lots of misunderstandings and confusion. Whilst not in the same league as P.G Wodehouse (but then, who is?) I would recommend this as a fun, light read.......more
Lynne Truss loves words and loves crafting them into gorgeous sentences that conjure up characters and plot .That's my first impression of the book. A fun and light read, where the real pleasure is the actual prose( I hope that makes sense) .......more
This was actually laugh-out-loud funny in a few places, and was a merry chase of a book. On the other hand, it had rather more profanity than I would have liked, and some of the characters were rather unpleasant. None the less, I enjoyed the majority of it, and will read more by Lynne Truss. As a te......more
I have read a few other Lynn Truss books and enjoyed them OK, but this was just too ‘rollicking’ for me. I wasn’t engaged by the plot, now and then I was interested in a scene and thought I was getting hooked but the silliness just was not holding me. I skimmed, hoping to get that drawn in feeling b......more
“Sex, violence, murder, and psychoanalysis lurk in the garden shed—a breezy, rude, pleasurable alternative to cutting the grass.” Observer (London)
“A slapstick comedy with more twists than a stick of licorice…Robert Bathurst keeps up with the wild pace of the plot and gives each of the characters a unique voice and accent.” AudioFile