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The Dig

By: John Preston
Narrated by: Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Fiona Hardingham, Derek Perkins
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In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find....

And pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatises three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure.

©2020 John Preston (P)2020 Penguin Audio 20th Century Fiction Historical Fiction
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I bought this book because of the movie which comes out this month (feb 2021) it’s a reasonably interesting story but never draws you in emotionally. Won’t both with the film.

Interesting

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A contemplative wistful story. Changing direction halfway, it windows delightfully frail human existence and lives.

A subtle window into journeys across time

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I find archaeology fascinating and the reviews for this book were good, but I had to give up on this recording. Slow, dull, and irritating. Once the dig leaves the early efforts of the amateurs, it’s too annoying to stick with. Awful characters, and dull dull dull.

So dull!

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