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Identity Crisis

By: Ben Elton
Narrated by: Ben Elton
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Identity Crisis, written and read by Ben Elton.

Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage.

A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn’t ‘get’ a single thing about anything anymore.

Meanwhile, each day another public figure confesses to having ‘misspoken’ and prostrates themselves before the judgement of Twitter. Begging for forgiveness, assuring the public “that is not who I am”.

But if nobody is who they are anymore - then who the f**k are we?

Ben Elton returns with a blistering satire of the world as it fractures around us. Get ready for a roller-coaster thriller, where nothing - and no one - is off limits.

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Ben Elton at his best. A very interesting and excellent book. So we’ll written i listened to it twice.

Absolutely brilliant

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Ben Elton follows on in the tradition of Tom Sharpe. A rollicking good read with mockery of PC on every page. Dave (who does law and shit)

insanely funny!

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If you like Ben Elton then you'll love this one. Up there with High Society but maybe not quite as clever. As usual up to the minute satire on identity politics, Brexit, Cambridge Analytica, Russian interference, post truth twitter feeds and gender dysmorphia. All read excellently by Ben Elton himself.

So funny

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Amazing book - probably his best. Accurately sorts and describes today’s world for us of the pre-technological era. Told with the usual mix of irreverent humour and intelligence. Allows us to think for ourselves, with no judgement delivered on topics that we all judge, every day. So ‘now’; so very brilliant. A book that will be studied in the future by people looking to examine the plight of another ‘crossover’ generation. World has changed and the old world gone forever. Language and technique comparable to Thomas Hardy’s portrayal of a ‘new world’ peppered with a (pre-industrial revolution) dying breed of old-fashioned ‘good folk’.

Highly recommended

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So typically Ben Elton and a wonderful satirical and only slightly exaggerated look at what society could be if the PC brigade take over.

I often listen to audio books when out walking. This book had moments where I spontaneously burst out laughing, must have looked like a crazy person!

Highly recommended.

Satire, only just though!

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