Sally on the Rocks
Winifred Boggs
Play
Length 10 h 37 min
Chapters 33
First published 1915
Sally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hopes for the future except a safe, if loveless, marriage.. Little Crampton has its complement of “typical” villagers – the pompous bank manager, the local gossip, the ageing parson – but this is spring 1915, and the young men are away fighting and dying in the Great War. Farms and businesses are struggling to exist, families are grieving and there are not many marriage prospects for a spirited, worldly young woman.
Sally's story is told with a mixture of wry humour, cynical observation and bitter anti-war sentiments that make this novel an interesting, emotional but never sentimental view of "English village life". (Summary by Anne Fletcher )
Chapters
1
The new bank manager is a bachelor, and simply rolling Read by Anne Fletcher 28:30
2
I am absolutely on the rocks, Lovey Read by Anne Fletcher 27:35
3
Isn't there a man called Bingley? Read by Anne Fletcher 8:34
4
Gracious, what a husband for 'Mrs Alfred Bingley!' Read by Anne Fletcher 23:04
5
You needn't be afraid your nose will ever be put out of joint Read by Anne Fletcher 5:34
6
You can put on your boots without a chair Read by Anne Fletcher 22:53
7
I hope I don't disturb your rest? Read by Anne Fletcher 20:37
8
Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost. Read by Anne Fletcher 27:41
9
I am sick of the war Read by Anne Fletcher 29:40
10
Stop! ..Oh you little idiot. Read by Anne Fletcher 30:38
11
What on earth are you doing here? Read by Anne Fletcher 13:40
12
Jimmy, is that the girl you told me about? Read by Anne Fletcher 22:02
13
I might have known she would fail me. Read by Anne Fletcher 8:50
14
What sort of an Italian tour? Read by Anne Fletcher 19:36
15
Won't you give me another chance? Read by Anne Fletcher 19:49
16
You are hateful! I wish I hadn't saved you. Read by Anne Fletcher 26:09
17
Here's luck to my husband's wife Read by Anne Fletcher 29:42
18
I am afraid we are lost, my very dear Miss Sally Read by Anne Fletcher 20:10
19
But perhaps bank-managers don't curl? Read by Anne Fletcher 39:54
20
Oh, Mr Bingley. what a mercy you are safe! Read by Anne Fletcher 19:07
21
I think he's set on not getting better - dying belike, Miss Sally Read by Anne Fletcher 12:31
22
Will you stay with me to the end? Read by Anne Fletcher 9:14
23
Parson's Sally is to marry Mr Bingley of the bank Read by Anne Fletcher 18:29
24
How fond you are of the Mountain! Read by Anne Fletcher 14:46
25
After all, what could Mother really know? She wasn't a man Read by Anne Fletcher 19:25
26
I am lower than the beasts that perish Read by Anne Fletcher 11:23
27
Sally? Sally! Read by Anne Fletcher 15:10
28
Then I also give you a week Read by Anne Fletcher 15:23
29
Just fancy if there was a divorce in Litte Crampton, Mr Bingley! Read by Anne Fletcher 23:20
30
I never guessed there were two of me Read by Anne Fletcher 17:32
31
Even the "Soft Job" has got to be paid for Read by Anne Fletcher 17:07
32
In the midst of death Read by Anne Fletcher 2:58
33
I did some hustle for a husband Read by Anne Fletcher 16:16
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