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Caledonian Road
- Narrated by: Michael Abubakar
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, thoroughly enjoyable state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.
May 2021. London.
Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.
The second? Milo Manghasa, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world, has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. He also has a plan.
Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes and secrets and scandals will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves. But then, he always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.
Critic Reviews
'A brilliant state-of-the-nation novel that pulls down the facades of high society, and knocks over the 'good liberal' house-of-cards. O'Hagan is not only a peerless chronicler of our times, but has other gifts - of generosity, humour and tenderness.' Monica Ali
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- Anonymous User
- 25-04-2024
how to live well
This novel has too much good in it to summarise in just a few words. it will stay with me always and joins my collection of best novels ever that includes Saturday by Ian McEwan, Possession by AS Byatt and Bleak House by Charles Dickens. what they aĺl have in common for me is a cast of characters trying in a myriad of ways how to live well.
the ending when Milo enables Campbell to perhaps redeem himself and rescue some dignity for his life is sublime. the payback to the villains even more so.
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- Shalleycat
- 23-04-2024
Interesting Tale of Complex Fall
View of different social and economic situations within a geographical area. The phlegmatic streak in central protagonist needs development.
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- michele taylor
- 09-04-2024
Scorching book
A cracker of a book. The author holds a blow torch to the belly of modern London.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-04-2024
A masterpiece!
A whole world of characters, all of them fleshed out. Extraordinary narration. A deeply disturbing and thought-provoking novel and a terrifying but loving portrait of London. I have to read everything else this brilliant author has ever written! What a masterpiece.
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