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Human Traces

By: Sebastian Faulks
Narrated by: Douglas Hodge
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

As young boys, both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa.

As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia.

'Shocking and enlightening... touching and affecting' DAILY MAIL

'A masterpiece . . . one of the great novels of this or any other century' INDEPENDENT

'Structurally intricate, yet intensely focused on the lives of individuals . . . replete with interesting ideas and . . . exceptionally fine writing' OBSERVER

'A bold and remarkable work of imagination . . . to write so well for so many pages is an amazing feat of intellectual athleticism' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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Enjoyable book. I find the narration style irritating like the reader is slightly drunk speeding and slowing and eating the words

Spoiled by narration

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I didn't enjoy this as much as other books by the author as it was quite intense at times and meandered from plotline to plotline. It took me a while to get through to be honest. However it is a well written and expertly narrated story

a long listen

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The book is good, I’ve read it before. I bought the audiobook to listen to while working. Unfortunately the narration is extremely difficult to listen to. It’s more like a 23hr monologue than a narration - far too hard to follow; a lot of mumbling, talking too fast, very strange and unnatural prosody. I’ve given up and am returning it :(

Jarring narration

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Great story, weaving the development of psychology thinking with a fascinating human narrative. The speed of delivery was too much until I changed to 0,9x, but fine after that.

Brilliant

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An extraordinary, mesmerising novel. What a pity about the narration. Douglas Hodge slurred his way through, not bothering to research the pronunciation of the German words and names, of which there were so many.

What a pity about the narration!

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