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Girl, 20
- Narrated by: Oliver Chris
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
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Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy, meanwhile, wants Douglas as an alibi for his growing involvement with Sylvia, an unsuitably young woman who loves nothing more than to shock and provoke. Life soon becomes extremely complicated as Douglas finds himself caught up in a frantic, farcical tangle of relationships, rivalry and scandal.
Girl, 20 is a merciless send-up of 1970s London's permissive society from a master of uproarious comedy.
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- Eleanor c.
- 08-07-23
Great voice acting, story holds up
I was really surprised at how modern the characters feel considering the book is from 1971 it’s baffling how far society hasn’t actually come. Same issues 50 years later, the voice actor I felt was really impressive at making the characters distinctive and getting a real feel for each person
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- PM
- 12-01-21
Strange pronunciation errors...
One defect here is that the narrator manages to mispronounce most of the names of the various famous composers that are mentioned throughout the text. Given that this is a book about a conductor narrated by a music critic, it’s a fairly considerable irritant and baffling that no one involved seems to have heard of the likes of Weber or Haydn. Apart from that, it’s an enjoyable enough listen through one of Kingsley Amis’s most savagely satirical novels.
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- Gary Fry
- 18-10-23
divine comic prose
Kingsley once again proves himself a master of the comic. the wrestling scene is divinely funny. You'd have thought the narrator would have looked up how to pronounce certain composer's names, however.
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