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Title: Goodfellowe MP
Author: Michael Dobbs
Narrator: Tim Piggott-Smith
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-27-14
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Michael Dobbs' popular new character Tom Goodfellowe, the crumpled backbench MP, makes his debut and takes on the might of the press in this highly acclaimed novel of power and corruption - now reissued in audio.
Into an age crying out for new leaders stumbles the most unlikely polotical hero of all. Tom Goodfellowe is not like other MPs. His private life is a mess, his love life is abysmal, he has an overdraft and a drink-driving conviction. He also has a talent for getting into trouble.
He lives in London's Chinatown, and when he is asked to help a young Chinese girl, he has no idea he's heading into conflict with the Prime Minister, the police, and the press - particularly Freddy Corsa, a newspaper proprietor who sets out to ruin Goodfellowe financially, politically, and sexually. Goodfellowe is one man against the system, and he is about to be destroyed in tomorrow's newspaper.
Critic Reviews:
Goodfellowe is a modern political hero with all the welcome weaknesses we expect. The fun (and there's plenty of it) comes from watching honest Tom struggling with his own frailties and battling against the massed ranks of base politicians and a debased media. Michael Dobbs does for Westminster skulduggery what Agatha Christie did for the country house murder. He knows what we like and he knows how to spin a rattling good yarn." (Sunday Express)
"Splendid, as good as anything Dobbs has done." (Sunday Telegraph)
"Eventful and entertaininga truly exciting Mounties-to-the-rescue climax." (Daily Telegraph)
Members Reviews:
Delightful Read in British Politics
You may know author Michael Dobbs from the sophisticated BBC/PBS series based on his Francis Urquhart trilogy, "House of Cards," "To Play the King" and "The Final Cut."
Urquhart was a fascinating villain. Thomas Goodfellowe, M.P., the protagonist of this series, is poor, honest, and sharp as a razor. "Goodfellowe, M.P.," is the first novel of a trilogy (I hope for more)that includes "The Buddha of Brewer Street" and "Whispers of Betrayal."
Goodfellowe's political clout and income have declined precipitously since he resigned his ministerial post to spend more time with his family (really!) after his son's accidental death. But as the book opens, his wife has removed herself from the unbearable pain of reality and lives in a mental institute he can't afford, and his only remaining child, an adolescent daughter too inconventional and talented to fit in at her boarding school, feels he's deserted her. And he's about to be hit with a scandal, apparent but not real, that rocks his already shaky world.
His strong women characters, especially his daughter and the woman he's falling in love with, defend their own rights and needs with a take-no-prisoners fierceness that measures how much the world's views of women have changed in my lengthy lifetime.
I'll leave the story there, and let Dobbs tell you the rest, if it sounds like your cup of tea. I'm busy tracking down and reading everything he wrote.
vintage dobbs
Dobbs never disappoints. Always witty, gripping, full of people that remind you of someone you know and therefore convincing.
