Christina Landsberg

Not one of Georgette Heyer’s best.

Revisado: 02-26-25

Not a great story and made worse by the most awful awful narration - Remmie Milner gave some words unexpected emphasis eg emphasis on ‘Sir’ before Richard; absolutely unable to do accents; sunable to express emotion, surprise or any emotion; she changed the book from a low key not very good historical romance to a farce. Will never listen to anything read by her again.

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A good-ish story spoilt by awful narration

Revisado: 12-10-24

The reader/narrator’s accents were terrible - especially Mosca’s cockney accent and Clent’s accent and way of speaking were, for me, so irritating as to spoil the story

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A convoluted narrative beautifully read

Revisado: 12-04-24

The story was confusing and convoluted, too much ‘philosophising’ and agonising rather than a clear and compelling narrative. Simon Russell Beale absolutely excellent.

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Outstanding

Revisado: 11-02-24

Brilliant writing, deeply moving and so terribly sad. He documents so well the futility and cycle of wars which benefit the power hungry, while the rest of the people, the ordinary people trying to live their lives, are left traumatised, mourning those killed, mourning destroyed communities and livelihoods.

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What characters!

Revisado: 10-18-23

The characters are so brilliantly drawn, perhaps Cynthia and her awful mother in particular, but everyone else too. So sad that we don’t have Elizabeth Gaskell’s ending - one can guess at it but her own descriptions would have of course added richness exceptionally good narration by Prunella Scales.

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Unspeakably dreary!

Revisado: 10-03-23

If the awfulness of 17th century England and the hardship and Puritanism of 17th century America is your thing, you’ll love this. I hated it - the savagery of revenge, the dreary characters, the well-nigh invisible women. And the narrator who can’t do accents and can’t do women was awful too.

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Wonderful Wilkie Collins

Revisado: 09-25-23

What a fantastic surprise this book was - having avoided it for ages, I found myself enthralled and didn’t want it to end. Great story.

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Great story, great narration

Revisado: 08-28-23

Such an excellent portrayal of the impact of early industrialisation on towns, workers and mill owners, the role of trade unions in trying to get a better deal for the impoverished workers, and the social divide. The reversal of usual roles,with a woman rescuing a man from his financial losses is a nice touch. Margaret constantly demonstrates her awareness of social upheaval but is also haughty and class consciousBrilliant book. And Juliet Stephenson’s narration is superb.

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Such an unlikeable protagonist that it prejudiced review of the story itself

Revisado: 07-09-23

The protagonist was so deeply unlikeable that it made the book hard to read through to the end - there really is a limit to following a narrative at whose heart is a horrible, self-absorbed person who seems, and was in my view, beyond redemption. I only finished it to know what happened (of course). Story itself wasn’t bad.

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Good enough story, poor narration

Revisado: 04-09-23

A good enough story on the whole - though there were pretty boring parts like the period in France that could have done with some serious editing - but Charlie Anson’s narration spoilt it for me - I thought his narration was mostly awful.

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