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Thank Heaven Fasting

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Thank Heaven Fasting

By: E.M. Delafield
Narrated by: Julie Dean
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About this listen

A witty classic from the author of the Diary of a Provincial Lady. This can be enjoyed both as a satirical commentary on Edwardian Society and as a delightful coming-of-age tale.

We meet Monica, a young girl about to be launched into society, with the one aim of finding a suitable husband. Not just anyone, but a man who in her mother’s words should be “quite - quite”. Written with a knowing wink and a bittersweet wit, we follow the naïve Monica as she experiences high hopes and youthful yearnings to find life turning out not quite as she expected.

©2021 Julie Dean (P)2021 Julie Dean Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Witty

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I wish I had trusted my instincts after listening to the sample - the narration is truly awful. The narrator reads as if she were reading a bed time story to an infant - the tone is patronising and there is quite a lot of smiling through passages where no smile is called for by the text itself. It is as if she is reading it without thinking at all about the meaning conveyed by the author. The young female characters are, without exception, given imbecilic, lisping voices which grate on the nerves and undermine the whole point of the narrative. I love EM Delafield but this version is best avoided.

Entirely spoiled by narration

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A lovely portrait of a young girl in a society which values, above everything, a girl’s marriageability. Fascinating and involving, the prevailing attitudes about young women and the marriage market are explored with a light, comic touch.

Enchanting and thought provoking

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Oh dear - I’m very disappointed with the Reader Julie Dean; she has insufficient variety in voice to represent different characters and her performance is lack lustre. The book summary suggests that there might be some humour in the book- if there is then it is lost because of the narration. I’m sorry about this because I like EM Delafield’s novels, and usually find Audible’s readers are excellent. This was a wasted purchase.

Disappointing

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