Divorcing Jack cover art

Divorcing Jack

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Divorcing Jack

By: Colin Bateman
Narrated by: Adam Moore
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets a beautiful and apparently impoverished student. And then, terrifyingly, she is murdered. Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself.…

©1995 Colin Bateman (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Espionage Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Funny

Listeners also enjoyed...

 I Predict a Riot cover art
Mystery Man cover art
Papercuts cover art
Murphy's Revenge cover art
The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax cover art
The Final Game cover art
The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas cover art
A Man with One of Those Faces cover art
A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller cover art
Anno Dracula cover art
Rebus cover art
Mind of a Killer cover art
The Stranger Times cover art
The Fallen: A DCI Matilda Darke short story cover art
Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume One cover art
Who Sent Clement? cover art

Critic reviews

"Hysterically funny one-liners and sinister Kafkaesque developments..." ( Daily Mail)
" Divorcing Jack is richly paranoid and very funny, it manages to say more about the Troubles in 280 vivid pages than reams of earnest reportage ever could." ( Sunday Times)
All stars
Most relevant
Love Colin Bateman's books. The humour, pathos and plots are always good value and good listening.

So funny

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book gave me my first shock moment in literature when I read it at way too young an age. I've re-read it from time to time ever since. This is my first time giving the audio version a go and it didn't disappoint. Same great story with excellent narration to accompany.

5 stars

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
... such a shame... had to switch off after a few chapters, the reading was so basic and bland that I just could not persevere. Absolutely loved the Mystery Man series, and was planning on delving into all the other books by Colin Bateman, but maybe I’ll save these for the kindle instead.

Spoilt by the narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The performance is stilted and doesn't flow well, which is a shame, because this is a great comic novel. It is a dark, black comedy and there are signs that it's not ageing well, but if viewed in context it's fine.

Great story, let down by performance

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I read this book many years ago and decided to give the audiobook a try. Bad move! The narrator seemed to think it would be acceptable to portray a menacing terrorist in the style of a cartoon grasshopper having its tummy tickled. And without wishing to give anything away, this book’s title is based on a misheard name. When the narrator finally gets to that part of the tale he mispronounces it, making a mockery of the whole thing. A small child could have done a better job, although the gritty nature of the book doesn’t quite lend itself to that. Buy the paperback.

Enjoyable story ripped to shreds by a woefully inept narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews