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Four Days' Wonder by A. A. Milne is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Four Days' Wonder about?

This is a vey funny, lightweight mystery in which the body of actress Jane Latour is found in the family home by her niece, the incredibly naïve Jenny. Fearful of being accused of murder, Jenny goes on the run, aided and abetted by her faithful friend. I did not find the first few chapters enthralling, but once I began to see the jokes (yes, it took a while) and to be drawn in, I enjoyed it thoroughly. There was a chuckle or even a laugh-out-loud moment on most pages. Jenny's innocence at the age of eighteen is incredible today, and possibly was not too likely then, but it is very charming and the source of much of the humour. There is a delightful romance with a hero whose humour is not unlike Milne's own. The heavy-handed policemen, the peasantly servants and the flavour of life in the early part of the twentieth century are all thoroughly enjoyable and I ended the book feeling that, even if life has never been like this, it ought to be. An altogether more innocent world, quite reminiscent in some ways of the atmosphere of the Winnie the Pooh books, yet with quite adult allusions and a wry insight into human frailties, combine to make this a memorable - if lightweight - book.

Who reads Four Days' Wonder?

Author

A. A. Milne

Publisher

Bello, an imprint of Pan Macmillan

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781509869541

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Humanities