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Title: Warning Hill

Author: John P. Marquand

Narrator: Tristan Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A poor boy falls in love with a privileged young woman and learns a bitter lesson about the haves and the have-nots in this dramatic tale from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Late George Apley.

As a young boy, Tom Michael walked with his father, Alfred, along the streets of Michael's Harbor, Massachusetts, and gazed across the water at the stately mansions on Warning Hill. Imagining the lives of the families inside those majestic homes was an enjoyable distraction, a cherished bond between father and son. Years later, after the shocking tragedy of his father's suicide, Tom holds the memory of those walks dear. When he meets and falls in love with Marianne Jellett, daughter of the self-made millionaire Grafton Jellett, he is thrilled to know one of Warning Hill's most prominent families. He is wholly unprepared for the pain that Marianne will cause him and for the discovery of a connection between the ruthless Grafton and his father's death. A mesmerizing tale of passion, power, and vengeance, Warning Hill was the first of John P. Marquand's novels to be set in the stratified New England landscape that defined his legendary career.

Members Reviews:

Oldie but goodie

I think this novel might have originally been a magazine serial. It reminded me of vintage movies on the TCM channel. It was a page turner, but no Pulitzer for this one.

A Quick and Enjoyable Read

Warning Hill is another John P. Marquand novel about wealthy northeastern society. In this book Tom Michael comes from a family whose fortunes have been wasted away by a father who never learned the value of a dollar, nor how to produce more, so he turned to gambling, and when that didnât work, to suicide to solve all of his problems. Tom fell in love with the girl from Warning Hill, where lived the rich. Her father was a self-made man that wielded the power of his wealth as do so many such people. He became class conscious, despite his own humble beginnings. At the time that Marquand wrote his novels such âtelling onâ the rich was considered daring. No such attitude exists now, so that any value in reading Marquand lies in how well he told his story, both from the point of view of writing craft and storytelling. Having won a Pulitzer Prize for one of his novels, he was certainly esteemed by his peers, and I personally always enjoy reading his books. I find that he wrote well, and told good stories.