Great book, audio needs some more editing

there were many occasions where the editing missed out sentence fragments being duplicated, could be improved. other than that happy with the story and narration.

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Too many retakes

The audiobook contained several dozens of retakes by the reader, which had not been edited out. Please fix this.

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A Story of Great Depth

This story will be resonant with so many people, so well written it held me enthralled from beginning to end.

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Wonderful story. Beautifully read - badly edited!

Story wonderful. Beautifully read. Editing needs attention. But i thoroughly enjoyed it never the less

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A Painter's Life

As painter I related to the mundanity of the practicalities of life juxtaposed with the imaginative life of the artist and within her, the child. Beautifully written and read.
Sadly, I become annoyed with the editing which allowed repeated text to interrupt the flow.

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Poorly edited

This would have been an excellent book performed well except for the poor editing. Throughout the book the reader repeats phrases as she tries out different intimations or stumbles on pronunciation. These errors should not have made it to the final cut. Shame.

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poor editing towards the end

I enjoyed the story although it was a bit rambling and mostly the performance but unfortunately there were some editing errors towards the end

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Brilliant Book!

The reader here is just right, measured and even and completely believable as the narrator. She adds meaning and authenticity to this superb and engaging account of a woman's life and her psychology of dealing with relationships with family, friends and lovers, in recent but also historical context . Wise and incisive and many layered. These relationships are reflected in the paintings if the successful narrator and we are told about these in satisfying detail although typically ironically, the artist's agent interprets them in other terms! all round 5 Stars

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Absorbing and nuanced but unedited recording

I love Atwood, her characters are so layered that you think she can only be writing herself, yet they change book to book. This one uses a similar structure to The Blind Assassin, if you know it, which is no bad thing.

Frustratingly, the audio recording is unedited, or at least has not been proofed properly, multiple times the (excellent) reader re-reads a line with a different intonation, any decent editor should have picked a take, not left both in. Sorry to the reader, you lost a star to the performance of the editor.

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Great book Flawed Production

I enjoyed this book. Here is Atwood exploring themes of time, change and recollection across a Canada of the 40s through the present. There's a sense of danger or malice as she describes it running through the book. It may seem sedate but there's real venom just below the surface. From childhood bullying to a reported murder to war and to hijack. Some real and some imagined.

The narration is good but as other reviews state the editing is poor and gets worse as the novel progresses. This sort of thing shouldn't impact the final published work and, if it does, should be picked up following its mention by so many reviewers.

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