![]() Plenty of class assumption and cliché from A. This has been one of the best books that I have experienced in an audio format.įunny, poignant, complex – with excellent readingĪ wonderful almost-epic about the life and loves of two-and-a-half generations of an extended family and friends, spanning the closing years of the 19th century to the end of the first World War. The ending leaves so many threads unaccounted for.but I think this reflects a commitment to the complex realism of the book that takes in so much any neat ending would have felt fraudulent. My family wondered if I was ok as I always had headphones on! A compelling book: art, families, women, children, men - puppets and politics. I have been carrying around the listening - all 32 hours (!!!!) - over the last few weeks and become more and more immersed. The book is extraordinary in so many ways - especially for the sheer amount of historical research that is studded through the plot as it traces a group of variously intertwined characters towards the terrible annihilation of the first world war. ![]() I was pleased to find that Juliet Stevenson was the narrator - great timing and emphasis. I am not sure that I would have been able to complete a reading of the book, so the audio has been great for allowing the sprawling and ever shifting narrative to just keep on and on as it moves from character to character and place to place. ![]() Intelligent and complex book, beautifully read. ![]()
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