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The Accidental Scoundrel
- Rochdale Manor
- Narrated by: Thomas Cassidy
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
A group of elderly and bored aristocrats have taken to stealing rare and priceless items to pass the time. A young man named Richard gets swept up in their world when he gets engaged to the daughter of the dangerously unpredictable Lord Rochdale. Although Richard is not particularly comfortable with theft, or much of the roguish behavior that goes with it, he must prove to Rochdale that he has scoundrel potential in order to marry his daughter and, more importantly, stay alive.
With the help of a disgruntled horse and a genius street urchin Richard haphazardly stumbles his way through Rochdale’s trials and not only survives but gains the respect (although he’s not entirely sure how) of Lord Rochdale and his elite group of scoundrels. Now all he has to do is steal a priceless bottle of whiskey.
"Do we have a new Wodehouse?" (Robert Wingfield, The INCA Project)
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- Mark Say
- 13-01-20
Easy listen, fun story, great narrator
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I began this book with the expectation that it would be a light-hearted easy to listen to and humourous book. I wasn't wrong.
It is very silly, silly in a good way. There is a scene with a golf ball which really gave me a clue as to how silly this book would turn out to be.
The story centres around Richard who is set to marry into the family of a land owning Lord of the Manor type named Rochdale. Rochdale is not your typical member of the aristocracy but a scoundrel and quite possibly a psychopath and it would seem that membership of this particular family comes with some conditions. This book explains those conditions and Richard tells the story about he became an accidental scoundrel.
It really is an easy book to listen to and I popped in and out of it whilst driving and doing housework in a few days; it's short enough to get through in a day if you would like and Thomas Cassidy does a fantastic job at narrating, not taking himself too seriously with the voices and accents and there was one point in the book which just happened to be a sex scene that literally brought tears of laughter to my eyes.
** Potential spoiler ahead, if you don't want a spoiler just go and buy it, it's worth the listen **
I do like myself a heist story and ideally I would have liked more time dedicated to the actual heist part of the book. I was imagining a bumbling posh English version of Oceans 11, I don't suppose it was far off, but it was a very short heist.
There's the slightest inkling of a sequel and I hope that there is one, a stag do which is also a heist perhaps!?
If this is ever made into a film I would like more emphasis placed on the robbery itself. Perhaps if it is televised Rochdale could be played by John Cleese and Richard by Darren Boyd.
Overall I really enjoyed this and will be giving Chapman's 'Tripping the Night Fantastic' a go next.
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