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A House Divided
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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- Danuta
- 14-08-22
Fantastic
Yet another Catherine Cookson fantastic novel. Once I started reading I could not stop till I finished.
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- Rachel
- 30-11-20
Entertaining
A good long read, great twists and turns as always, interesting divides of the classes, posh characters a bit too ponsey ,well written
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- Myriamb8
- 05-02-19
saccharin and predictable for a Catherine Cookson
feels like a first novel or something. I like Catherine Cookson for the gritty realism but this was anything but. very mawkish. feels like a different author. preferred Solace of Sin. wish Audible had her more famous novels available.
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- Sue Sims
- 01-08-23
Can’t get into story
Not really enjoyed her voices I did try listening a few times but still not very good
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- Chloe
- 28-06-16
Not one of her finest
I know that Catherine Cookson has fallen out of favour in recent years after her long unchallenged reign as the bestselling British author, but I find myself returning to her novels every once in a while, like a comfort blanket in book form. There is nothing particularly challenging about her stories and they tend to follow a fairly predictable path, but they are eminently readable and Cookson's ability to write flawed, believable, likeable characters is second to none.
Having said this, I probably would not return to A House Divided that soon. Compared to novels such as The Glass Virgin or A Dinner of Herbs, which I find I can read multiple times, A House Divided lacked the spark that engages the reader and by the end I was getting a little bored. The main issue is that there is never any real obstacle to the main characters' love story - everybody loves Matthew despite his blindness, everybody loves Liz despite her lower class, Liz and Matthew love each other, the horrible ex-fiancé is dispatched quickly etc. There are none of the usual Cookson twists or self-realisations that make her novels so entertaining.
I believe that Cookson wrote this not long before her death and I think it shows - she tends to repeat herself a bit too often and the novel is overlong - it could have done with a good edit to be honest, and this might have overcome some of its shortcomings.
Having said this, it is still an entertaining story of its type and I don't regret my purchase. I wish Audible would offer a wider range of her other novels now - groundbreaking they are not, but when you need to immerse yourself into a comfortable rags to riches love story, her tales can't be beaten!
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- Kindle Customer
- 30-10-23
Loved it 📕
Love it so much but all her books are great if only there was a book 2 of this
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- Beryl J Garrod
- 29-08-15
Very enjoyable. read very well.
I could not wait to hear the next chapter. I had read the book many years ago. But it is very relaxing to have it read to me.
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- Mrs S Goreham
- 13-03-21
great book
loved it great read kept me gripped all the way through would recomend highly fab
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