Gala Week: A Summer Wine Chronicle

And my soul definitely felt better after listening to this masterpiece of comedy and heart. Characters, long familiar to fans of the longest-running BBC comedy, Last Of Summer Wine, make their appearances here in the middle of fish and chips, barmaids and bicycles, secrets and peacocks, and the result is the funniest sequence of mishaps I've ever read. Roy Clarke, the man behind Keeping Up Appearances, among other things, treats his familiar subjects with affection and respect, making this not only a very funny book, but a heartwarming one as well. The dialog and narration of this piece is masterfully done by the actor who plays Clegg, and his voice, impressions, and accent alone are worth the rather hefty price here.All in all, if you can scrape up the (at the time of this review) fifty dollars, do it! It will prove worth it as you listen to this book over and over, finding new humour every time. It just made me FEEL good to listen to it. Three thumbs up!