
Beware This Boy
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Narrated by:
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Roger Clark
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By:
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Maureen Jennings
About this listen
November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at the opportunity to help out in the nearby city of Birmingham, where an explosion in a munitions factory has killed or badly injured several of the young women who have taken on dangerous work in support of the war effort.
At first, it seems more than likely the explosion was an accident, and Tom has only been called in because the forces are stretched thin. But as he talks to the employees of the factory, inner divisions - between the owner and his employees, between unionists and workers who fear communist infiltration - begin to appear. Put that together with an AWOL young soldier who unwittingly puts all those he loves at risk and a charming American documentary filmmaker who may be much more than he seems, and you have a pause-register novel that bears all the hallmarks of Maureen Jennings' extraordinary talent: a multi-faceted mystery, vivid characters, snappy dialogue, and a pitch-perfect sense of the era of the Blitz, when the English were pushed to their limits and responded with a courage and resilience that still inspires.
©2012 Maureen Jennings (P)2015 Audible Inc.Storyline very realistic the sort of thing that no doubt went on in war time Britain.
Looking forward to reading another of the books
A lot of detail making an interesting story
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The story - well, it's WWII, so everything is very grim. Very very grim, in fact, what with the factory explosion and the policeman who is unhappy in his marriage. Very grim.
Narrator ruined it.
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I enjoy Ms Jennings' writing , this is another great story, set in an era that is of interest to many...what is not to like?The mastery that is Ms Jennings
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Great story shame about the accents
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But no, what destroyed it for me was the narrator. There are a lot of accents in the book and he was pretty much terrible at all of them! The book is set in Birmingham and people are described as having a strong brummie accent. Most of these sounded like Dick Van Dyke cockneys with a few straying towards Merseyside 🤦🏼♀️
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