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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

By: Chris Cleave
Narrated by: Luke Thompson
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The breathtaking new novel from the multiaward-winning author of The Other Hand.

When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.

Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss - until his flatmate, Alistair, unexpectedly enlists, and the conflict can no longer be avoided.

Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvelous spy. When she is - bewilderingly - made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget.

Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love as well as war that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams.

In a powerful combination of both humour and heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history and a perfect love story through the vast sweep of the Second World War - daring us to understand that against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs that change us most.

©2016 Chris Cleave (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction War & Military Heartfelt War Tear-jerking Thought-Provoking Emotionally Gripping Military Espionage

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Editor reviews

"A cracker." ( Stylist, 10 Exciting Books in 2016)
"His best book to date." ( Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016)
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This was a great story set at the outbreak of WW2, with romance, testing of friendships, tragedy and triumphs. However, overall it missed something, that could have made it a great book.

Mr Cleave describes in great detail various really unimportant bits but when the chips were down and something major was happening like war, death and tragedy it was just not given the description and emotion it deserved. I had to rewind a couple of times thinking I had missed something.

An example was the diarrhoea like explosion of adjectives for the opening of the blackberry jam, but the death of one of the main characters was a couple of short sentences, with no real emotion. So that's why I gave it a low overall score.

The narration by Luke Thompson was perfect, his women's voices exceptional which makes me recommend this book despite the problems I have mentioned.

Good story, but missing something

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I absolutely loved this book, it's so beautifully written. Audio books are normally just background while I work or drive, but this one deserves full attention, Chris Cleave's characters, dialogue and descriptive passages are so engaging. I'm going to listen to it again right away (and I never do that!)

Beautiful and spellbinding

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At first I was sceptical about a male voice narrative to the female character Mary how wrong was I It was a well written book with good characters The narrative was brilliant I really enjoyed it Brilliant

A richly audio

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Only the Brave - Beautiful prose, excellent narration and not a bad story. a strong there of relationships running through all characters.

highly recommended

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thoroughly enjoyed this book, also very witty and kept me engrossed through out, great narration too

Great read

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a little bit long and at first I was impatient for it to get going but I enjoyed the story and was pleased I kept listening

very nice story beautifully read

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Would you listen to Everyone Brave Is Forgiven again? Why?

No probably not. Entertainly , interesting and a little conventional. But read well, good characterisation & unusual situations.

Consistently enjoyable

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Enjoyed this book so much. Loved the theme and the characters. I felt immersed in the hardships suffered in ww2 London. An excellent book.

London in Ww2

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I ordered this book on a daily deal and based on reviews. It is as others stated humorous and sad and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Falls short of a full 5 stars as I would have liked an extension at the conclusion of the future of two of the mail characters but recommended and great narration

Not what I expected

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Thoroughly recommend this book. Narrator perfect too. Thats my review but they require more words?!

Excellent

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