I really wasn’t expecting to like The Penderwicks. I finished the audio book not long ago after one try with the actual book and two starts with the audio book previously. I was expecting to be bored by an old-fashioned story where nothing much happens. I kept starting it and stopping before the Penderwick family even got settled in at Arundel, where the story takes place.

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