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Title: The Party
Author: Elizabeth Day
Narrator: Greg Wagland, Stephanie Racine
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-13-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
A gripping story of obsession and betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment.
"As the train pressed on, I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction, plotted according to a new constellation. Because, although I didn't know it yet, I was about to meet Ben and nothing would ever be the same again."
Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had.
But Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years.
At Ben's 40th birthday party, the great and the good of British society are gathering to celebrate in a haze of champagne, drugs and glamour. Amid the hundreds of guests the politicians, the celebrities, the old-money and newly rich Martin once again feels that disturbing pang of not-quite-belonging. His wife, Lucy, has her reservations too. There is disquiet in the air. But Ben wouldn't do anything to damage their friendship....
Would he?
Critic Reviews:
"Witty, dark and compelling." (Sebastian Faulks)
"I practically murdered this book in an evening I loved it so much. The Party is a terrifying, hilarious, brilliantly written original with a wit to die for." (Pheobe Waller-Bridge)
"Superb - clever, gripping, psychologically acute." (Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us)
Members Reviews:
The Party
What does Greg Wagland and Stephanie Racine bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?
The performances of both speakers was excellent. They really helped encapsulate the world of the posh and wealthy.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The internal struggle of Martin and his need to fit in, to be part of this wealthy lifestyle and ultimately to be loved by the man he had worshiped since school is really moving.
Any additional comments?
A great listen, Elizabeth Day is a is fantastic writer. The book is dark, witty and exciting.
Some of the laziest writing I've ever read
This shamelessly derivative, cliched story had nothing - repetitive and boring, the plot was too illogically planned out to make for a believable climax and every character was completely one-dimensional in really stereotyped, unrealistically exaggerated caricatures.
