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Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
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Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when an alluring woman in her 30s walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. She is an awkward 19-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter.

As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realises how much they both stand to lose....

First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of '50s New York.

Copyright Number 9 Files (Carol)Limited / Channel Four Television 2014

©1984 Claire Morgan (P)2014 Isis Publishing

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Incredible

A beautiful story, well written and movingly performed. Loved every second and will no don’t listen to it again

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Good story for understanding

A story of the possibilities but also the difficulties facing same sex relationships. It was enjoyable but not engrossing!

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  • 12-02-2016

Mesmerising!

I completely entered the world of Carol and Therese and became captivated by their story. The narration was superb. I didn't want it end!

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Ethereal

No sooner had I finished this book I wanted to turn around and start it again - I wish I had read it ten years ago when I was starved for books that reflected (in some way) my experiences. Laurel Lefkow's beautiful voice fits the dreamy sonorous landscape of this tale of forbidden love perfectly.

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  • 26-02-2023

brilliant

brilliant. brilliant. well written and a beautiful tale of love. well written and a beautiful story.

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great novel

lovely! a great novel with a beautiful love story told wonderfully plainfully..loved it.. I highly recommended it.

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A truly affecting story

What did you like most about Carol?

It speaks to a number of interesting themes, including gender, sexuality and class discrimination, all woven into an affecting story and characters you can invest in.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I enjoyed Therese, because of the arc of her story, her self containment and her burgeoning maturity.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When Carol is blackmailed into going home and Therese is left alone.

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