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A Stranger City
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Summary
When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community.
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- Mori Glaser
- 09-06-19
worth listening to
The book is as good as you'd expect from Linda Grant. The narration is mostly quite good but there's annoying mispronunciation of words like chutzpah and apropos, which she or the producers could easily have checked - also her affectation of Haitch for H, which doesn't fit her accent.
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- Lily Ann
- 28-05-19
Disappointing
A kaleidoscopic style of writing which I grew increasingly unable to follow, and finally abandoned. Although rich in detail, the text was read like a scramble of bullet points.
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- Hugh M. Clarke
- 22-05-19
I’ve Started So I’ll Finish
I bought this on the basis of a review in a London newspaper. The review concluded that: “A Stranger City feels like a very important novel for right now: no politically ponderous diatribe but a witty, sunlounger-accessible and deeply humanising story about people — about us — and the societal shipwreck we’re stuck in.” While there are moments of humour, overall I found the novel to be very lacklustre. The characters lacked a distinct identity and the plot elements were challenging to follow. I persisted to the end, but not with a sense of expectation - more an attitude of “I’ve started so I’ll finish”.
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- Karmel
- 01-06-20
Tale of Brexit
Tangible, tragic and varied fragments of lives lived in London and England under the shadow of Brexit.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-05-20
Love Grant usually. But not this one.
Too much Brexit. As an immigrant Brexiteer, I really resent the way the reasons for it were portrayed. Awful narrator who mis pronounced many non English words.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-06-19
Interesting
Enjoyed overall but didn't feel a close bond with the characters, not helped but a rather average narrator