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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Editorial reviews
"His best book to date." ( Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016)
Publisher's Summary
The breathtaking new novel from the multiaward-winning author of The Other Hand.
When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.
Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate, Alistair, unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided.
Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is - bewilderingly - made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget.
Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love as well as war that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams.
In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history and a perfect love story through the vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to understand that against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most.
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- Gayle Mason
- 23-06-2017
Stunning
I simply loved this book. Beautifully evocative. I fell in love with the characters.
Treat yourself and read this book.
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- Jennie Howard
- 20-05-2019
Very predictable.
the story was nice enough, but this story had been tools a million times just with different names. There is not enough attention placed on giving the characters identities beyond very surface information, which means they are hard to relate to. Alister is probably the only character who had a lot of personality and is relatable. Mary, the poor little rich girl, who is so pretty she inadvertently steals all the attention from her poor friend Hilda, but has no idea she's doing it... Please... That is the biggest clue this book is written by a man.
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- Christopher
- 17-07-2016
Wonderful word craftsmanship!
Superbly built characters. Clean, precision prose a skilful immersion of the fourth protagonist into war torn London. Best since The Dressmaker.
Thank you and congratulations Chris
Chris Richards
Canberra, Australia
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- Kindle Customer
- 31-07-2016
Really enjoyed it
A good story with the right narrator. I enjoyed and am to read the book now. Got lots of knitting done.
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- frlhughes
- 09-07-2016
Wonderful story, brilliantly read
A rich and thought provoking story and the narration was truly outstanding. I highly recommend.
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- Jane
- 28-05-2016
A story of great beauty
I couldn't stop listening...beautifully narrated .. I thought that the story brought a great depth of the human condition from a time where society had no words of a deep experience and left so much between the lines...the war changed so many.. as a post war ex-Londoner I found the story moving
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- Fiona O'Connell
- 31-12-2016
One of the best!
A wonderful story very well written. Both humorous and heartbreaking with outstanding narration by Luke Thompson.
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- essie
- 04-06-2023
Get it. It’s beautiful.
I want it to keep going.
Beautiful.
Funny
Awful
Amazing.
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And reader.
Thank you.
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