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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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"His best book to date." ( Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016)
Summary
The breathtaking new novel from the multiaward-winning author of The Other Hand.
When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.
Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate, Alistair, unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided.
Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is - bewilderingly - made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget.
Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love as well as war that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams.
In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history and a perfect love story through the vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to understand that against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-12-16
highly recommended
Only the Brave - Beautiful prose, excellent narration and not a bad story. a strong there of relationships running through all characters.
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- Aisling Gillespie
- 21-03-18
Great read
thoroughly enjoyed this book, also very witty and kept me engrossed through out, great narration too
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- Sigrin
- 08-10-16
Good story, but missing something
This was a great story set at the outbreak of WW2, with romance, testing of friendships, tragedy and triumphs. However, overall it missed something, that could have made it a great book.
Mr Cleave describes in great detail various really unimportant bits but when the chips were down and something major was happening like war, death and tragedy it was just not given the description and emotion it deserved. I had to rewind a couple of times thinking I had missed something.
An example was the diarrhoea like explosion of adjectives for the opening of the blackberry jam, but the death of one of the main characters was a couple of short sentences, with no real emotion. So that's why I gave it a low overall score.
The narration by Luke Thompson was perfect, his women's voices exceptional which makes me recommend this book despite the problems I have mentioned.
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- Jacaranda
- 26-10-16
Beautiful and spellbinding
I absolutely loved this book, it's so beautifully written. Audio books are normally just background while I work or drive, but this one deserves full attention, Chris Cleave's characters, dialogue and descriptive passages are so engaging. I'm going to listen to it again right away (and I never do that!)
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- Christineb
- 17-12-18
A richly audio
At first I was sceptical about a male voice narrative to the female character Mary how wrong was I It was a well written book with good characters The narrative was brilliant I really enjoyed it Brilliant
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- Karis
- 16-10-16
Excellent
Thoroughly recommend this book. Narrator perfect too. Thats my review but they require more words?!
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- Sam
- 31-01-17
a love story despite everything
I went for this book hoping someone had finally written a book with a balance between a love story and a war story. That hasn't happened. This is a love story set with the back ground of world war 2 but no battle actually takes place (in terms of the characters locations).
However having said all that, this is a fantastic book which brilliantly captures four people, breaks them beyond measure and then provides a realistic but hopeful ending. Its very good just not a war story. I suppose the point of the book is that heroes weren't all in some field on France. They were everywhere, mostly, in this case, being bombed to despair in London and this book brilliantly captures that struggle.
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- T. D. Larden
- 30-01-17
Superb narration.... a superb listen
I thoroughly enjoyed this... the narrator is superb really bringing to life the main characters who all have superbly witty lines.
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- J
- 18-12-16
very nice story beautifully read
a little bit long and at first I was impatient for it to get going but I enjoyed the story and was pleased I kept listening
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- M
- 01-12-16
Consistently enjoyable
Would you listen to Everyone Brave Is Forgiven again? Why?
No probably not. Entertainly , interesting and a little conventional. But read well, good characterisation & unusual situations.
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