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How Many Miles to Babylon?

Yazan: Jennifer Johnston
Seslendiren: John Keating
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Whitbread Literary Award-winning novelist Jennifer Johnston's story of two young Irish men, whose defiant friendship spans class and, later, rank at the onset of World War I.

Born to an aristocratic family on an estate outside of Dublin, Alexander Moore feels the constraints of his position most acutely in his friendship with Jerry Crowe, a Catholic laborer in town. Jerry is one of the few bright spots in Alec's otherwise troubled life. The boys bond over their love of swimming and horses, despite the admonitions of Alec's cold and overbearing mother, who scolds her son for venturing outside of his class. When the Great War begins, he seizes the opportunity to escape his overbearing mother and taciturn father, and enlists in the British army. Jerry, too, enlists - not out of loyalty to Britain, but to prepare himself for the Republican cause. Stationed in Flanders, the young men are reunited and find that, while encamped in the trenches, their commonalities are what help them survive. Now a lieutenant and an officer, Alec and Jerry again find their friendship under assault, this time from the rigid Major Glendinning, whose unyielding adherence to rank leads the two men toward a harrowing impasse that will change their lives forever.

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Story about friendship between lonely boys from different classes in difficult times, spoilt by dreadful narration .

Poor narration

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...ruined by this bizarre narration of it. The narrator reads the words as if he isn't taking them seriously; like he's always on the verge of telling a joke. It's difficult to describe, but suffice to say it's hugely annoying.

Do yourself a favour and read the book, or if you can find Andrew Scott's superb reading of it for, I think, the BBC, listen to that instead. It's an abridgement but still better than this annoying thing.

Fabulous novella...

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lovely wee Irish book. suspense, snobbery, culture, historic, descriptive, sad, not too long winded and a good read to escape for 4 hours or so.

lovely wee book. suspense, snobbery, culture,

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Personal taste i know but i really glad i got this. Brilliant narration. The book was written so well that i pictured every part of every scene. Overall a brilliant story

So glad I listened to this

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It was difficult to listen to. Not because of the Irish accent which was fine, but because the reader didn’t differentiate the various voices enough so it was difficult to tell who was supposed to be speaking. He also paused in all the wrong places

Narration a bit annoying.

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