Review: Travels With My Aunt
Gaby Meares
I didn’t know what to expect with this book. I’ve enjoyed several of Greene’s books, but Travels is nothing like anything else he has written!
What a romp! I listened to the book narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith who was just amazing. Perhaps I wouldn’t have enjoyed this as much if I’d just read it. Pigott-Smith brought all the characters to life.
Henry Pulling is enjoying his early retirement from banking, tending his dahlias. He has never married, and has accepted a quiet life in a quintessential English village. That is until he meets his Aunt Augusta at his mother’s funeral. Augusta is like a whirlwind in Henry’s life and before he knows it he finds himself her travel companion. Gradually Henry realises that what he thought was ’life’ was not ’living’ at all, but merely existing. We all need an Aunt Augusta in our lives to shake us out of our complacency!
My only disappointment with the book occurs at the very last,