
Waiting for Sunrise
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Narrated by:
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Jack Rowan
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By:
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William Boyd
About this listen
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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be. One year later, home in London, Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies that is slowly, steadily permeating every corner of his life....
©2012 William Boyd (P)2020 Penguin AudioThat type of read might be appropriate for a modern novel set among ‘the yoof’ of Sarf London, but it’s a disaster for a story set in Edwardian England.
Audible - can you refund my credit please: it was simply impossible to enjoy this book given the awfulness of the reading.
Ruined by awful narration
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Poor performance
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Spoiled by t glottalisation and mispronunciation
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Poor Narration
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Complicated
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Frustrating
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several words mispronounced and not quite the accent for the officer upper class hero.
Otherwise very enjoyable and gripping
excellent story
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Some poor accent choices
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William Boyd’s ‘Any Human Heart’ and ‘Restless’ are superb novels. I thought this was a much weaker effort with poor pacing and too much descriptive flannel which added little to the narrative drive of the story.
Final verdict- disappointing.
Appallingly read - disappointing story
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Interesting story ruined by awful narration
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