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Speak to Me
- Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
A barbed, funny, painfully well-observed study of contemporary relationships, centring on the love triangle between a wife, her husband, and his mobile phone.
'I shall explain about our marriage. We have a modern version of a long-distance relationship. We share a house, but live in different historical eras...'
What happens in a relationship when your partner only has eyes for their new phone?
What happens when you lose a treasured possession - a hoard of love letters documenting a relationship that never really ended - and this loss becomes an obsession?
Speak to Me is the story of a woman's quest, in a world ruled by screens and devices, for a conversation that will unlock who she once was, and what she really wants now. Keenly observed, tender and sharply funny, this is an audiobook about all the ways we say, and don't say, the things in our hearts.
Critic reviews
'There are three of us in this - you, me and your mobile. How many couples have said this to each other? Paula Cocozza's witty, wry new novel is sharp as a skewer about the devices and desires in many modern marriages. I loved it.' (Amanda Craig, author of The Golden Rule)
'A beguiling and unsettling modern love story, full of wit, bafflement and razor-sharp swipes at modern desperation. She loves her past; he loves his phone, the centre cannot hold.' (Louisa Young, author of A Year and a Day)
'A meticulously composed novel about getting and paying attention. Paula Cocozza peels back the screens of modern life to explore different types of distance - from those we love and from ourselves, in a marriage and back to a lingering youthful relationship. Cool, compelling, Speak To Me is both timeless and vividly contemporary.' (Richard Beard, author of The Day That Went Missing)
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- SJM
- 24-08-23
Dull, whiny coming of middle age story
I understand the principle of the story & it is all rather sad. Being of a similar age to the protagonist, Susan, I can identify with the themes she raises in the book. However, it was a chore to get through it. The entire novel seemed rather whiny & drawn out. Perhaps, I am just rather lacking in sympathy for a "coming of middle age" story; we all have history and it is often tinged with regrets and sadness but the incessant exploration of it causes the novel to drag. I kept wanting to shout "yes, yes, we understand but get on with it & stop obsessing over the past". To me there seems to be a slight martyr complex to Susan's thoughts revolving around being poor and not having confidence; she appears to absolve herself of responsibility for anything that happens in her life by not being proactive & acting passively with Anthony & then Kurt. I found it very difficult to feel any sympathy for Susan as she has the benefit of a good education and a very comfortable middle class life but seemed to fail to develop personality, even mild assertiveness, and she has the life she fell into rather than created for herself.
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