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Title: Invitation to the Married Life
Author: Angela Huth
Narrator: Matt Wilkinson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-14-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The married couples in this book have two things in common: a skill in the duplicity that flourishes even in happy marriages, and an invitation to the Farthingoes ball. In the months preceding the party, we learn something of their double lives: The faces that each one exposes to their spouses and to the world give little hint of their complex and secret tribulations. By the time they arrive at the ball, each clutching his or her different hopes and fears, we have become familiar with their unsmooth paths, and shared many a humorous escapade or private tragedy with Rachel and Thomas, Mary and Bill, Ursula and Martin, Frances and Toby, as well as the alluring R. Cotterman and the only questing bachelor, Ralph.
Sophisticated, sympathetic, witty, and razor-sharp in its observations of the sub-text of married life, this is a wonderfully accomplished and enjoyable novel which develops totally out of the characters it creates.
About the author: Huth is the daughter of the actor Harold Huth. She left school at age 16 in order to paint and to study art in both France and Italy. At 18 she travelled, mostly alone, across the United States before returning to England to work on a variety of newspapers and magazines. She married journalist and travel writer Quentin Crewe and soon became known most for her writing, having written three collections of short stories and 11 novels. She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic, and broadcaster. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Members Reviews:
Narrator should be ashamed of himself
What would have made Invitation to the Married Life better?
A different reader
Would you be willing to try another book from Angela Huth? Why or why not?
Yes - the story is pleasant. Not earth-shakingly great literature, but a good story.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator does a perfectly acceptable job until he voices a female character. For all female voices, he uses a horrible music hall falsetto. It sounds like something out of Monty Python, and it's completely out of place. It's so bad, in fact, that I cannot finish the book. It ruins the listening experience altogether.
You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
As I said, a pretty good story. What a shame the narrator is more enamored of his drag queen voice than of the author's words.
Any additional comments?
Can I get a refund?
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Title: Invitation to the Married Life
Author: Angela Huth
Narrator: Matt Wilkinson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-14-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The married couples in this book have two things in common: a skill in the duplicity that flourishes even in happy marriages, and an invitation to the Farthingoes ball. In the months preceding the party, we learn something of their double lives: The faces that each one exposes to their spouses and to the world give little hint of their complex and secret tribulations. By the time they arrive at the ball, each clutching his or her different hopes and fears, we have become familiar with their unsmooth paths, and shared many a humorous escapade or private tragedy with Rachel and Thomas, Mary and Bill, Ursula and Martin, Frances and Toby, as well as the alluring R. Cotterman and the only questing bachelor, Ralph.
Sophisticated, sympathetic, witty, and razor-sharp in its observations of the sub-text of married life, this is a wonderfully accomplished and enjoyable novel which develops totally out of the characters it creates.
About the author: Huth is the daughter of the actor Harold Huth. She left school at age 16 in order to paint and to study art in both France and Italy. At 18 she travelled, mostly alone, across the United States before returning to England to work on a variety of newspapers and magazines. She married journalist and travel writer Quentin Crewe and soon became known most for her writing, having written three collections of short stories and 11 novels. She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic, and broadcaster. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Members Reviews:
Narrator should be ashamed of himself
What would have made Invitation to the Married Life better?
A different reader
Would you be willing to try another book from Angela Huth? Why or why not?
Yes - the story is pleasant. Not earth-shakingly great literature, but a good story.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator does a perfectly acceptable job until he voices a female character. For all female voices, he uses a horrible music hall falsetto. It sounds like something out of Monty Python, and it's completely out of place. It's so bad, in fact, that I cannot finish the book. It ruins the listening experience altogether.
You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
As I said, a pretty good story. What a shame the narrator is more enamored of his drag queen voice than of the author's words.
Any additional comments?
Can I get a refund?