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Legacy

By: Carole Hayman
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
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At a moment when powerful men everywhere are being exposed for their crimes, Celia receives an email out of the blue, accusing her ex-husband of committing a rape decades before. She feels compelled to investigate, but where should she even begin? Together with Carly, her millennial colleague at the Harland Herald, she revisits a past she thought she’d left behind, full of partying, drugs and free love. At the time, she’d thought she was at the centre of something - she’d been swept up in the maelstrom of the summer of love - but did she miss something rotten at its core?

From writer, producer and presenter Carole Hayman comes this insightful, compulsive thriller. Told through a series of flashbacks to Celia’s wild youth, Legacy examines the ideas of memory, feminism and changing sexual politics. Former associate director of the Royal Court Theatre and author of the Warfleet Chronicles and Hard Choices, Hayman’s writing includes the hit Radio 4 series Ladies of Letters, The Refuge with Sue Townsend and Rides, the first ever all-female TV drama.

Hayman was a research fellow at Kings College London, where she conducted a study on women and serial killers. This intelligent, provocative #MeToo mystery is perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Emma Cline’s The Girls.

©2020 Carole Hayman (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
Genre Fiction Psychological

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"Hailed as THE audiobook of 2021." (Daily Mail)

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Legacy is a gripping story of sexuality, power, corruption, nostalgia, regret and hope. Hayman paints a vivid picture of the sex, drugs and party life of the seventies. The realism is enhanced by fictionalised narratives involving real individuals like Andy Warhol and a brilliant article by Kate Millett. Highly recommended!

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Another brilliant book by this author, very entertaining and witty even though touching upon very contemporary issues

A joy!

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This is a timely and necessary book - a fascinating study of the relationship between past and present, about remembering and misremembering, about seeing what we want to see rather than what is happening, and about how we have to reconstitute the 'narrative' of our lives when we are shocked into seeing something clearly for the first time. It's a powerful novel for our time and read with the energy and sensitivity that the writing deserves. It asks us essential and sometimes uncomfortable questions and makes us think deeper, and better, about the nature of truth.

A story for our time

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Highly recommended as an antidote to mediocrity. Entertaining, witty, erudite and thought-provoking. "I never go lower than a bass player." Priceless! Hats off to the brilliant Carole Hayman. Legacy should be adapted into a TV mini-series.

Prosecco for the soul

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...but I'm going to have to abandon as the narrator isn't my cup of tea - hopeless American and Canadian accents which is annoying when two characters are those nationalities....will buy the book to read instead.

Story is gripping....

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