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Title: Beyond This Horizon
Author: David Thompson
Narrator: Nigel Peever
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-15-14
Publisher: Oakhill Publishing
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Tat, is the first of his family to leave the Upper Eden Valley in Cumbria. He is clever, excels at rugby and has a fine singing voice. From Appleby Grammar School he gains a place at University College London.
Tat mixes with art students from The Slade School, and an exciting relationship develops with Jane Cranshaw, a beautiful upper class painting student. They fall in love but he is unaware that Jane conceals a dark secret which fatally flaws their relationship.
When their idyll is torn apart by a succession of emotional hammer blows, Tat and his best friend, Olly Sinclair, are engulfed in a whirlwind of turmoil and confusion. Unexpectedly, Tats magnificent singing voice proves to be his salvation.
Members Reviews:
Beyond This Horizon by David Thompson Kindle edition
A damn good read. We follow Tat's journey from simple childhood on an isolated farm in Westmoreland to sophisticated maturity in the world of painting, sculpture, opera and jazz of 1920s London. It is tautly written, almost understated, which makes the violent episodes all the more shocking. I have great empathy withTat and hope a sequel follows as seems to be suggested by the ending.
Beyond This Horizon by David Thompson
The hero of David Thompson's right-of-passage debut novel Beyond This Horizon is Thomas Arthur Taylor, known to everyone as `Tat'. He is brought up on a remote hill-farm in Cumbria, before the First World War.
Tat gains a place at Appleby Grammar School, which he attends as a boarder, paid for by his grandmother. At school he excels at rugby. As a chorister, he has a soaring alto voice, which develops into a rich baritone of operatic dimensions. Academically clever, he gains entry to University College London, where he studies law.
Surprisingly, Tat mixes with art students from the Slade School in London where he meets a beautiful liberal-minded upper-class painting student named Jane. They fall in love and seem perfectly matched.
Thompson enlivens the narrative of undergraduate life by introducing famous figures from the early Jazz scene and London art world, giving them believable parts in the story. The book's best bits are the action sequences: throat grabbingly exciting, the writing zips along. The next best are the sex scenes which are suitably arousing, but (as John Betjeman might complain) there aren't enough of them. Tat's seemingly idyllic relationship with Jane comes to a cataclysmic end before Tat can discover her secret sexual obsession with a man old enough to be her father. I could have done with more about Jane since as a beautiful well brought-up young woman willing to indulge in al fresco sexual intercourse in a 1920's London street is not a character to be discarded lightly.
`Beyond This Horizon' is clearly intended to be followed by a sequel, which might develop into a trilogy. I for one can't wait to read more about Tat's future career and life-odyssey.
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Title: Beyond This Horizon
Author: David Thompson
Narrator: Nigel Peever
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-15-14
Publisher: Oakhill Publishing
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Tat, is the first of his family to leave the Upper Eden Valley in Cumbria. He is clever, excels at rugby and has a fine singing voice. From Appleby Grammar School he gains a place at University College London.
Tat mixes with art students from The Slade School, and an exciting relationship develops with Jane Cranshaw, a beautiful upper class painting student. They fall in love but he is unaware that Jane conceals a dark secret which fatally flaws their relationship.
When their idyll is torn apart by a succession of emotional hammer blows, Tat and his best friend, Olly Sinclair, are engulfed in a whirlwind of turmoil and confusion. Unexpectedly, Tats magnificent singing voice proves to be his salvation.
Members Reviews:
Beyond This Horizon by David Thompson Kindle edition
A damn good read. We follow Tat's journey from simple childhood on an isolated farm in Westmoreland to sophisticated maturity in the world of painting, sculpture, opera and jazz of 1920s London. It is tautly written, almost understated, which makes the violent episodes all the more shocking. I have great empathy withTat and hope a sequel follows as seems to be suggested by the ending.
Beyond This Horizon by David Thompson
The hero of David Thompson's right-of-passage debut novel Beyond This Horizon is Thomas Arthur Taylor, known to everyone as `Tat'. He is brought up on a remote hill-farm in Cumbria, before the First World War.
Tat gains a place at Appleby Grammar School, which he attends as a boarder, paid for by his grandmother. At school he excels at rugby. As a chorister, he has a soaring alto voice, which develops into a rich baritone of operatic dimensions. Academically clever, he gains entry to University College London, where he studies law.
Surprisingly, Tat mixes with art students from the Slade School in London where he meets a beautiful liberal-minded upper-class painting student named Jane. They fall in love and seem perfectly matched.
Thompson enlivens the narrative of undergraduate life by introducing famous figures from the early Jazz scene and London art world, giving them believable parts in the story. The book's best bits are the action sequences: throat grabbingly exciting, the writing zips along. The next best are the sex scenes which are suitably arousing, but (as John Betjeman might complain) there aren't enough of them. Tat's seemingly idyllic relationship with Jane comes to a cataclysmic end before Tat can discover her secret sexual obsession with a man old enough to be her father. I could have done with more about Jane since as a beautiful well brought-up young woman willing to indulge in al fresco sexual intercourse in a 1920's London street is not a character to be discarded lightly.
`Beyond This Horizon' is clearly intended to be followed by a sequel, which might develop into a trilogy. I for one can't wait to read more about Tat's future career and life-odyssey.