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Four Fires

By: Bryce Courtenay
Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
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 The four fires in this story are passion, religion, warfare and fire itself. While there are many more fires that drive the human spirit, love being perhaps the brightest flame of all, it is these four that have moulded us most as Australian people. The four fires give us our sense of place and, for better or for worse, shape our national character.©2001 Christine Courtenay, a recording of the book published by PenguinBooks Australia Ltd. (P)2001 Bolinda Publishing Historical Fiction Fiction Thought-Provoking

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"A superb storyteller." (The Times)
"Humphrey Bower, speaking as Mole, delivers every possible nuance and emotion of his character's story, and shows a startling aptitude for other dialects as well. Close family friends and enemies include surviving Polish Jews, an East Indian healer, an Irish Catholic priest, Japanese prison camp soldiers, and many others. All of them, young and old, male and female, spring to vivid life in Bower's versatile voice. Narrative passages and dialogue elicit tears and laughter by turns, without a minute of boredom in the 30-hour production." (AudioFile Magazine)
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Of all the audible books I have listened to, including Bryce Courtenay books, this has been the most enjoyable book by far! Humphrey Bower is the best narrator I have listened to so far and his performance of this wonderful story made it a fantastic experience. The story, told through the eyes of boy who was the main character, was heart warming and funny, making me smile, laugh and tear up throughout the story. I LOVED IT! Thanks to all involved.

Fantastic!

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Wonderful storyline that helped me gain a much better insight into Aussie Battlers, mateship, community and the price paid by our veterans in war. Narration expressed emotion so well and really captured essence of characters despite all being read by same narrator.

Captivating and educational

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loved everything about this book the Narrator was amazing loves his abilities to do the accents

i didn't want this book to end

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Fantasticly written and narrated , my favourite of all Bryces novels. great Australia story. love it!

Bryce Courtenays best!

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Such an emotionally engaging story that made me laugh and cry. Very well read and easy to listen to. Made my trips in the car so much more enjoyable.

A fantastic story

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I was totally involved with all the ups and downs of the family! Found the information about the wars fascinating and very worthwhile.

Most enjoyable

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I felt it was a book that every high school student should be made to read full of emotion truth, sadness, and it might make the youth of today, realise they haven’t got it so bad after all, leading their privilege lives, and never going through trauma and sadness like this family has

Wow

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Fantastic Australian story. Great characters pnt and you get so deep into it. Loved reading it.

Excellent

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Storytelling at its best! Narrator did an excellent job! I highly recommend this audio book.

Great story

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This was my first audio book.. and it has me addicted to all audio books. The narrator did abgreat job too.

Great Australian Humour

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