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Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel

Narrated By Simon Slater

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(38)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2009.
Tudor England. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell - a man as ruthlessly ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.

UNABRIDGED 24 hrs and 15 mins
Wolf Hall

UNABRIDGED
- by Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by Simon Slater
"Voice characterisations are too similar"

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I managed to listen to 2 hours and 7 minutes before I had had enough.

The style of writing is quirky, so I imagine that it would be a challenge to narrate this really well. In fact the narrator does quite well with all the background stuff, its just the character voices that are not working at all. Twice in 2 hours I've not realised that a conversation between person A and B has turned into chat between A and C. This is entitely due to the voice characterisations being so similar to one another.

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