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Burning Bright
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Critic reviews
"Helen Dunmore beautifully fulfils the highest function of a storyteller: to make you wonder what will happen next." ( Sunday Times)
" Burning Bright is a beautifully constructed and thought-provoking novel, with a freshness that makes it outstanding." ( Sunday Telegraph)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Katie
- 23-12-12
Great book, great narrator
I'm a big fan of Helen Dunmore - she's one of those authors where you have to keep back a book you haven't read of hers, to look forward to. And this book is probably, for me, amongst her best. On top of this, it is brilliantly narrated - a marriage made in heaven. Read by one of those rare narrators who manages to distinguish so clearly between the voices of all her characters. Really excellent. I'd probably put it in my top 10 audiobooks.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-11-20
Marvelously poetic prose style
As usual Dunmore's poetry surfaces in her prose. She challenges our cliched perceptions of morality through characters who are far from simply good or evil. Love it
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Karen M.
- 28-04-16
Implausible plot
What disappointed you about Burning Bright?
The most positive observation I can make is that I did listen to this book all the way through but it really is the most implausible story line. From time to time it is padded out with long, boring episodes which are totally superfluous to the plot. The quality of the writing is inconsistent, but when Helen Dunmore begins referring to minor characters by that jarring recognition technique of naming them by the most obvious thing about them e.g. Grey Suit I really lose patience.
Would you ever listen to anything by Helen Dunmore again?
No I wouldn't
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
On the whole the narrator gives a good performance, although I was surprised when it was revealed that one of her impersonations , whom I had been imagining as Paul McCartney, had actually been born and bred in Manchester.
Any additional comments?
The narrator could do with taking a trip "up north" and listen to some regional accents.
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