Narrated by Kate Forbes
Thanks to Lea’s sharp eye, she realized that Audible released Morning Glory, narrated by the incomparable Kate Forbes, on 7/28/2016!
This has been on AudioGals Hard to Find list forever – some of us have been lucky enough to have heard the original, and it is a top favorite. We’ve reviewed it twice, once in 2014, and earlier as a Three Gal Chat, when Brenda, Lea and Melinda discussed the brilliance of this book and performance and bemoaned the fact that it wasn’t available for others any more.
This is the remastered version from 2003, published 10 years after Deborah Raffin and Christopher Reeve played Ellie and Will in the 1993 movie pictured on this cover. The audiobook publisher is Phoenix Books, who also released the abridged version narrated by Deborah Raffin, as well as several abridged recordings of other Spencer books, including That Camden Summer, narrated by David Dukes, who also narrated the out-of-print unabridged version. The only issue might be the recording quality, since audiobook recording technology has improved astronomically since 2003.
The story is set in the 1940s, right before America’s involvement in World War II, barely post-Depression. Everything about this story and this performance is excellence – highly recommended!
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That’s great! It gives me hope for the other hard to finds.
I know! I mean, what makes an electronic file “out of print” anyway? It’s not like electronic files have the overhead of physical copies, which need to be printed, packaged, stored, shipped, displayed, dusted.
Well, I guess lawyers can make it go and stay out of print through contracts.
We were told by Recorded Books in 2014, “We would love to release our recording of Morning Glory again but unfortunately the rights have been tangled in a difficult situation not of our making for many years. Kind of a tragic thing, really.” Thanks to whomever finally resolved that tangle.
Upon discovery last night, I replaced my very scratchy version of Morning Glory (which was a recording of the cassette tapes) with the digital version. Next up for listening!
I was clicking BUY NOW one nanosecond after you texted me the good news!!
Great find Lea!
I never read Morning Glory. ” Shame! Shame!”, I know. Thank you for the heads up. I now have the chance to listen to the audiobook. Perfect!