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Statues in a Garden

By: Isabel Colegate
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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Bloomsbury presents Statues in a Garden by Isabel Colegate, read by Kristin Atherton.

‘Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair’ Observer

‘I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.’

1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland.

But all this means little to Cynthia Weston, attractive wife of cabinet member Aylmer Weston, and her nephew by marriage Philip. They are caught up in the charmed, perilous toils of a mutual passion that will destroy all they hold most dear – while the shadow of war lengthens and darkens, ready to swallow their world whole.

A captivating portrait of a lost world, Statues in a Garden is a rediscovered masterpiece by one of the most important and neglected British female writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

©1964 Isabel Colegate (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 20th Century Classics Fiction Historical Fiction World War I Marriage War
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This isn't my first Isabel Colegate. I read The Shooting Party which is a masterpiece and I wished I had simply read this too. But there was an audiobook available so I thought I'd opt for that. The narration frequently ruined the story. Kristin Atherton read the characters quite well but the actual prose in between, the narration, was staccato and read with little nuance or intelligence so much so that she sounded like AI. Disappointing listening experience.

Great book, patchy to irritating narration

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