The Golden Rule
Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
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The Golden Rule
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Narrated by:
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Lucy Price-Lewis
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By:
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Amanda Craig
About this listen
Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
A Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick
When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she married Jake and had his child, her dreams were crushed into bitter disillusion. Her husband has left her for Eve, rich and childless, and Hannah has been surviving by becoming a cleaner in London. Jinni is equally angry and bitter, and in the course of their journey the two women agree to murder each other's husbands. After all, they are strangers on a train - who could possibly connect them?
But when Hannah goes to Jinni's husband's home the next night, she finds Stan, a huge, hairy, ugly drunk who has his own problems - not least the care of a half-ruined house and garden. He claims Jinni is a very different person to the one who has persuaded Hannah to commit a terrible crime. Who is telling the truth - and who is the real victim?
2021, Women's Prize for Fiction, Long-listed
©2020 Amanda Craig (P)2020 Hachette Audio UKListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
"A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms." (Sunday Times)
"An irresistible summer read." (Guardian Book of the Day)
"A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner." (Daily Mail)
I felt the story was cliched and the protagonists massive caricatures. The story had some promise but ultimately didn’t deliver for me.
Also I didn’t particularly enjoy the reader.
Disappointed
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Too polemic ... too many issues
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Excellent from start to finish
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A gorgeous novel for our time set in Cornwall containing love loss and everything in between but ultimately it is a story about everything human nature has to offer. It is really one of the best novels I have read in a while. In that it gives both style and substance equal billing and does both wonderfully well.
Lucy Price-Lewis really brings Cornwall to life
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Complex contemporary content that rose and fell with some really exciting episodes.
Beauty and the beast, Arthurian fables, a modern fairy tale to completely absorb and entertain.
Loved the narration
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