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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
- Narrated by: Penelope Keith, Russell Tovey
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
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'Utterly beautiful. I adored it' JOANNA CANNON
'Hugely uplifting and wonderful' AJ PEARCE
'A ripping yarn full of warmth and wonder' BETH MORREY
Sometimes finding your place in the world is the greatest puzzle of all...
Clayton Stumper is an enigma.
He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt.
Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the sharpest minds in the British Isles and finds himself amongst the last survivors of a fading institution.
When the esteemed crossword compiler, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle to him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for his future.
Yet as Clay begins to unpick the clues, he uncovers something even the Fellowship have never been able to solve - and it's a secret that will change everything...
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- Dee
- 17-05-24
Different , delightful, refreshing
This book is beautifully written and delivered. Though beware if listening via echo dot! Alexa was put in quite a tiz, as Pippa might say, on hearing her name, accompanied by an instruction, and I had to revert to the ipad until that particular conversation passed. I felt that I didn’t know any people like the characters portrayed in this book - until I got to know them better and I realized that I probably do. I found their almost magical world far more appealing than I would have expected - my usual reading matter being a little darker. I expect the word puzzlely bits enhance the story if you are interested in that sort of thing but perhaps surprisingly given the title, you can easily gloss over those bits and not lose anything while you follow the very engaging, well drawn characters as they confront and resolve different but similar challenges in an enviable location.
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- Liz
- 17-05-24
Quirky, interesting book
I thought Penelope Keith was a fabulous narrator and it's a nice story. I found listening to them spell out the clues really tiresome though, it's impossible to follow without looking at it written down so they might have been better just skipping it. I was listening to it while driving so couldn't look at the PDF. Also if it's going to annoy you that the male narrator says haitch for aitch then that will make the letter clues even worse!
Overall though a nice book which wasn't a dramatic plot twist ending, more like a gradual reveal. you know from about halfway through what the end will be but it's nice to watch Clayton find himself through the story. I think Penelope Keith's narration really elevated the whole book. She is just wonderful to listen to. So clear and compelling and she really brought the character to life. Definitely an enjoyable book well worth a listen, although maybe it would be a trade off with the printed book. the audiobook gives you Penelope Keith and the printed book gives you the puzzles. I'm not sure which would be worth more.
There might be a spoiler alert in this next bit, so don't read this if you haven't listened yet.
I also found there were several bits of the book that felt like they hadn't been proofread properly. Like where we learned from Pip that the portrait was of the dead son and then cutting back to Clayton, he somehow knew that now as well, despite never having been told. Also small things like him carrying the 5000 piece jigsaw and then stopping to buy a bottle of port and some snacks and then arriving at the boat and standing with one foot on the boat and running his hands through his hair and them putting them in his pockets. What happened to all the stuff he was holding?! Or when Neil described his shoes as brogues and he thinks "obviously they're Oxford's", which was a detail I liked. Then twice we heard about him putting on his brogues. Many very small inconsistencies which are very minor but would be easy to iron out with some editing.
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- Abby
- 14-05-24
Loved it
New author to me and I loved this story. It kept me interested from start to finish with the lovely relationships between the characters. Narrator's were fabulous as well.
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