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Driving in the Dark

By: Deborah Moggach
Narrated by: Rory Barnett
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Desmond never did have much luck with women – except in getting them through their driving tests. Now a coach driver, he is at the most crucial crossroads of his life. His wife has thrown him out. The crisis serves only to deepen his despair over another failed liaison – until he elects to steer his coach on a spectacularly reckless quest for the son he has never seen.

©1988 Deborah Moggach (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing 20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Modern Detectives Mystery World War I

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Critic reviews

'Moggach, for the purposes of the book, has turned herself into a bloke. His monologue throughout strikes me as totally authentic, but not only does Moggach get his lingo right, she thinks through his head, dramatizing his confusion, decency, wit, pain and determination. This is not just ventriloquism, but empathy so complete as to be phenomenal.' (Irish Times)
'At once acutely funny and sad … a woman's protest at the inequality thrust on men by the worse excesses of the women’s movement.' (Mail on Sunday)
'Poignant and funny … Deborah Moggach is brilliant at capturing just the right voice for her characters.' (Cosmopolitan)
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So enjoyable. I love Deborah's writing style and her focus upon characters. I really hope to see Stolen and Porky on Audible soon.

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