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Becky
- Narrated by: Charly Clive
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters
'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam McAlister, author of Scoops
It’s peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out, crimped hair is in, supermodels are known by their first names, and Becky Sharp will do anything to escape her past.
From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper. Landing scoop after scoop, Becky ruthlessly carves a place for herself in a society determined to ignore her. These are the biggest stories and scandals of the decade, and she has something to do with every one of them.
But Becky may have more in common with the people she writes about than she thinks – what takes a lifetime to build takes only a moment to destroy . . .
'A Vanity Fair for the mass-media age' - The Guardian
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- Bastet Pybus
- 10-02-23
This Becky lacks joie de vivre
I enjoyed this novel, which certainly had some of the scandalous energy of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and drew effectively from the phone hacking trial of the other Rebecca. It’s a good listen, but I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed - this Becky is simply less fun and more frightened. Women are in a much stronger position now than they were in the nineteenth century, and I don’t agree with the Guardian reviewer that this reflected our scarier times. Perhaps I had hoped for too much, this just felt like a missed opportunity. Still, a good listen.
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