The Girls of Chequertrees
Marion St. John Webb
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Pamela Heath, a pleasant 16-year-old girl living quietly at home with her parents and siblings, receives a peculiar invitation one day. An odd little old man delivers a letter from Emily Crabingway, her mother’s fourth cousin, who wants to know if Pamela will come and look after her house, Chequertrees, for 6 months while she is in Scotland on business. Three other girls will stay there with her. If they all comply with certain conditions (no visits to/from relatives; no letters, only one postcard a month; and stay out of the locked room on the first floor), they will each receive £50 at the end of their stay. Pamela decides to accept the invitation, and the rest of this delightful story is about her experiences at Chequertrees.
Summary by Winnifred Assmann (6 hr 0 min)
Chapters
| The Window Opposite | 4:57 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Pamela Receives a Strange Invitation | 22:02 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Beryl | 22:11 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| The Room With The Locked Door | 14:20 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Making Plans | 11:14 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Millicent Jackson Gives Some Information | 13:42 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Beryl Goes Through an Ordeal | 16:30 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Which Concerns a Visit to Inchmoor and a Woman with a Limp | 26:07 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Isobel Makes Trouble | 26:59 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Pamela Befriends Beryl and Meets Elizabeth Bagg | 30:06 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| The Wishing Well | 16:21 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| In Which Elizabeth Bagg Paints a Picture and Isobel Hears Some Pleasant News | 20:03 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Mr Joseph Sigglesthorne Forgets the Date | 16:26 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Caroline Makes a Discovery | 11:59 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| About a Bazaar and a Meeting in the Ruined Windmill | 16:44 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Pamela's Wish Comes True | 19:53 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| In Which Old Silas Laughs and Isobel Dances | 24:34 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| The Door Is Unlocked | 26:55 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| Beryl Confesses | 11:08 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
| A New Beginning | 7:53 | Read by Winnifred Assmann |
Reviews
Nice old young adult fiction
Stella McQueen
A perfectly good story. Well read. Not especially predictable though I wished the idea was developed more deeply. I will seek more to listen to by both the author and the reader.
Lovely!
Mrs. VLB
Looking forward to enjoying more of Miss St. John Webb's work. Thank you so much Librivox volunteers and staff for the many, many hours of sheer enjoyment.
enjoyed
Kytoga
Cute story. I disagreed with the other review, thought the ended appropriately. Exceptional reader, many thanks!
where's the rest
E P
it ended before it was finished
Ms SV
Good book. The reader was excellent.