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Beartown

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Friends and Anxious People

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Beartown

By: Fredrik Backman
Narrated by: John Sackville
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beartown by Fredik Backman, read by John Sackville.

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest.

For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart.

Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. A bright new future is just around the corner.

Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act.

It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear.

With the town's future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other.

Which side would you be on?

Previously published as The Scandal.

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Loud volume from guest voice-overs which varies greatly from the narrator. Very off-putting.

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Touched on so many aspects of life and how society behaves and responds.
I would recommend this book to everyone and think it should be on school book lists because it addresses such a wide range of behaviours and would encourage discussion.

Compelling

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Ostensibly a story about a hockey team but soon you find yourself caught up in a complex community.

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There is a lot of time spent building up the background to the story. Stick with it because once the event at the centre of the story occurs, it is vital. As always with this wonderful author, a superb story, rich in characterisation.

Loved it

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Backman really is a skilled writer. He even managed to keep me listening even with all the talk of a sport I neither care about or approve of.

Great narrator too, though I found it amusing that he kept given the characters variations on English accents. Kept feeling a bit confused as to where this book was set

Got to love Backman

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