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Tales from the Greenhills
- Narrated by: David Hunsdale
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
During the sizzling hot summer of 1976 in Liverpool, teenager Tommy Dwyer is rapidly approaching adulthood and dealing with the usual coming of age issues: temptation, gang violence, murder, and helping to prevent the flooding of the streets with illegal drugs.
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- Chris McGale
- 02-10-20
An excellent read. Full of great characters.
Terry Melia’s debut novel offers a lovely blend of good and bad, smart and stupid, characters that stem from real life experience in violent 1970’s Liverpool. Being from Northern Ireland and of a similar age, I very much related to the lead character Tommy Dwyer, an intelligent, street-smart young man who needed to escape from the rat-trap in which he was enclosed - before he died within it. Opportunities to do so presented themselves but not before Tommy pushed life and limb to their limits - all the way to an excellent ending when a new life looms but his actual life literally hangs in the balance. Highly recommended.
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- Thomasmbell
- 06-02-20
1976,memories.
pretty good, took me back to my youth!
shame about the accents tho...story was engaging.
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- Rowan Fortune
- 14-01-20
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As I already appreciate the merits of Terry Melia's novel, this audiobook served as a good opportunity to revisit the story through the many voices of David Hunsdale. Based in the Liverpool of the mid-70s, our hero Tommy Dwyer encounters a range of moral dilemmas and adventures. Whether bringing out the Welsh accents of an extensive third act situated there, or capturing the right tone to evoke the humour, tension or pathos of any particular scene, Hunsdale is an apt choice for narrator. The story itself retains all of the wonderful pacing, well-realised settings and relatable characterisation I remember from reading. There's a fluidity to Melia's prose and this performance does it justice, transitioning between encounters with drug dealers, petty thieves and romantic affairs while developing an impression of Dwyer's world of poverty, aspiration, community and developing sense of justice.
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- Mr T
- 11-01-20
Brilliant an authentic slice of Liverpool life
The narrator is a great counterpoint to the Liverpool accents. Compelling full of dark wicked humour and vivid charecters. TOMMY DWYER is a Liverpool legend
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- Dave
- 27-02-20
covers every aspect of human emotion
mr terry melia has really excelled with this work of fiction truly outstanding considering it's his first book I really enjoyed the liverpudlian humour immensely I can't rate his skill highly enough in words may I suggest any budding film directors give this authors work a chance to appear on the big screen as I'm positive it would become either a drama for tv or adapted into a film very well written terry melia and I hope we don't have to wait to long for a sequel
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