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Rebuilding Coventry

By: Sue Townsend
Narrated by: Kate Lock
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Discover the brilliant, hilarious and unlikely story of a woman's life rebuilt, from the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series and The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year

'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . . .'

When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her next-door neighbour, in a wild attempt to stop him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run.

Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets.

There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters.

From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby and his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen . . .

Praise for Sue Townsend:

'Laugh-out-loud . . . a teeming world of characters whose foibles and misunderstandings provide glorious amusement. Something deeper and darker than comedy' Sunday Times

'Touching and hilarious. Bursting with witty social commentary as well as humour' WOMAN'S WEEKLY©1988 Sue Townsend (P)2012 W F Howes Ltd Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Witty Funny
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Another clever observational tale from Sue Townsend which kept me well entertained over the Christmas season.

Definitely worth a listen!

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A good yarn in true Townsend style however the narration is difficult to listen to and the volume is highly variable.

Entertaining once you get past the narration

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Overall, not a bad book. Takes a while to get in to it, performance brings it alive.

Slow to start

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Purchased this book on a whim. Glad I did. Amusing easy read. Great, comical narration.

Sue Townshend her usual funny self

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Sorry, but I really have issues with the narrator... She's fine as long as she's not playing characters. But almost all the characters are totally over-acted, have bizarre intonations, and worse of all - are loud and booming, or loud and screeching, so that I constantly had to turn the volume up and down to hear the almost whispered narration and not get my eardrums blown out when characters started talking.

I love Sue Townsend but not the narrator

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