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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: David Timson
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David Timson welcomes you into mid-Victorian London in this superb production.This story of intrigue, love, greed, and murder centers on the violent death of a man who stands to inherit a great deal of money and its impact on multiple people at various levels of society. A one-man full cast, Timson creates a large number of entertaining characters - ranging from Mr. Boffin, the "Golden Dustman" who inherits the dead man's fortune and is seemingly corrupted by it, to Silas Wegg, the grifter with a wooden leg, and the unflappable but abused secretary, John Rokesmith. Timson is equally adept at creating women's voices for a variety of believable and distinct female characters. Never a dull moment.

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Out of the dust-heaps and dirty streets of mid-Victorian London, Dickens creates a classic murder-mystery tale. A dead man is fished out of the Thames by a scavenger and his daughter. Who is he, and how did he get there?

The man's death affects members of all levels of a society permeated with greed. Dickens presents an array of characters both touching and humorous, from Mr. Boffin, the "Golden" Dustman, to Jenny Wren, the lame doll-dressmaker. It is a story enriched by disguise and intrigue, while the River Thames, symbolising both polluted and renewed life, weaves through it all - in this, the last novel Dickens completed.

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"David Timson reads Dickens' last complete novel with a sense of fun.... [A] wonderful listen for Dickens fans and novices alike." (Publishers Weekly)

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Superb reading of one of Dickens’ lesser known novels

In all honesty this is not one of Dickens’ best novels, but this is more than made up for by a wonderful performance by David Timson. Characterisation, so crucial in Dickens, is delicious. This is the shorter abridgement…which is arguably preferable in the case of this novel. But I understand the unabridged version, also read by Timson, is also available.

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