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    The Pig Comes to Dinner
    The Pig Comes to Dinner
    The Pig Comes to Dinner
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Pig Comes to Dinner

    Written by Joseph Caldwell

    Narrated by Chris Patton

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Enjoy a “second helping” from the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through The Pig Did It with this sequel The Pig Came to Dinner. All of the charming characters of the previous story are also present again: Kitty McCloud and her new husband/former blood enemy Kieran Sweeney have bought an ancient Irish castle with the profits from Kitty's popular revisions of classic novels like Jane Eyre. Kitty's American cousin, Aaron McCloud, has arrived to visit with his new wife, the former swineherd Lolly McKeever. With them is a troublesome and unwelcome pig, a wedding gift they are redelivering to Kitty and Kieran. But over the resulting lighthearted discord hangs a weightier problem: Kitty's new home is inhabited by a pair of ghosts from out of the castle's troubled past. How this haunting couple is dealt with serves only to embellish the allure and humor of Mr. Caldwell's uniquely theatrical storytelling.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 5, 2011
    ISBN9781611744187
    The Pig Comes to Dinner
    Author

    Joseph Caldwell

    Joseph Caldwell is an acclaimed playwright and novelist who has been awarded the Rome Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of five novels in addition to the Pig Trilogy, a humorous mystery series featuring a crime-solving pig. Caldwell lives in New York City and is currently working on various writing projects.

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    • 3/5
      A different sort of book, blending history with today.
      An interesting take of a richly historical place with the culture all its own.

      Enjoyed the twists and turns of mystery, and humor.
      Was not your typical read, nice variety, but description and setting sometimes were overwhelming and had to concentrate to follow some of it.

      Will look to find the sequel.
    • 3/5
      "The Pig Comes to Dinner," the second volume in Joseph Caldwell's trilogy about an Irish pig and its influence on human lives, may be even funnier than the first book, "The Pig Did It."In that book, the unnamed pig digs up a man's body, which the humans try to give a decent burial while dancing around the question of how this man happened to be buried in their yard. The pig also brought together Kitty McCloud and Kieren Sweeney, members of two feuding families who discover they love each other.Now married in "The Pig Comes to Dinner," the couple has purchased an old castle with money from Kitty's popular books. She "corrects" novels of the past, placing the stories in the present and giving them happy endingsUnfortunately, the castle comes with two ghosts, which only Kitty and Kieren can see. It seems that centuries before, dynamite was buried somewhere on the castle grounds. Two attractive teenagers, a boy and a girl, were held as hostages to force the disclosure of the whereabouts of the explosive. Nobody talked, and the teens were hanged. Their ghosts, it seems, cannot rest until the dynamite blows up the castle.There are other complications. Kitty and Kieren find themselves falling in love with the respective ghosts. Lord Shaftoe, a descendant of the man responsible for the deaths of those two teenagers, now claims to be the rightful owner of the castle and wants to evict Kitty, Kieren and their pig.Will the castle be blown up? Will the ghosts be freed? Will the pig avoid being the main course at the big dinner Kitty and Kieren are planning for their neighbors? Learning the answers to these questions is a pleasurable reading experience.