Katherine Mansfield Life of Ma Parker-download full unabridged story at: http://store.payloadz.com/detail_html.asp?Id=737074 read by Eve Karpfe produced by Robert Nichol AudioProductions [...]

Katherine Mansfield Life of Ma Parker-download full unabridged story at:
http://store.payloadz.com/detail_html.asp?Id=737074
read by Eve Karpfe produced by Robert Nichol AudioProductions London

Full unabridged story - 16 minutes playing time
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Katherine Mansfield's "Life of Ma Parker" is an unabashed tear-jerker. The old cleaning-woman keeps her eyes dry, but we're not supposed to. ..



Plot summary

The gentleman opens his door to his charwoman, who tells her her
grandson has died. Through an analepsis, the grandson asks his
grandmother for money, which she says she does not have. She then
thinks back to her move to London;
her husband's death; her grandson's death. After cleaning the
gentleman's house, she wishes she had somewhere she could go and cry,
but as it starts raining she realises she cannot even do that outside -
and Ethel is at home, thus preventing her from doing it there too.