Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Some books are better left on the page. Gatty's Tale is one of them. Kevin Crossley-Holland has fulfilled his dream of writing a story of a pilgrimage to Palestine in 1203 by nine people, including Gatty. Gatty is a character from the King Arthur Legends. He has plumped her up into a main character and she becomes the unlikely heroine of this story.
The six of drove to Paris and back earlier this month listening to Gatty's Tale. By the end we felt as if we had been to Jerusalem and back. The reader, Claudia Renton, might have been at fault. She had to take on many different English, Welsh and foreign accents. It was a difficult job and sometimes some of the characters became confused. And in the case of Lady Gwyneth, the sponsor of the trip, her way of speaking was annoying.
    Perhaps the fact that this book only had a wisp of a subplot also added to the tedium of it. The six CD's last for eight hours.This is a book for serious young teenage girls. The odd boy might like it too. But we were a car made up of four boys and two girls (the two girls being me and my seven year old daughter). But to our credit, we listened to the end. We laughed, we cried and we spoke about the story when we were out of the car and bouncing around Paris. But unlike Ark Angel and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, we frequently turned it off for breaks.
To sum up, read it, don't listen to it and don't read it out loud to your kids.