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Imogen

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Rebecca Courtney
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As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered real life on the Riviera.

Her holiday with tennis ace Nicky and the whole glamorous coterie of journalist, playboy, photographer was a revelation. But the path of a jet-set virgin in that lovely wicked world was a hard one. Imogen began to wonder if virtue really was its own reward....

©1978 Jilly Cooper (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction

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I have read this book over and over since my youth and I was excited to find the audiobook version, but the narration is so terrible, it really ruined the whole thing. The same narrator that did hatchet job on this book also butchered Emily - mispronunciation, incorrect reading of the text, and a terrible array of accents, apart from a few acceptable Northern accents. I really don’t understand how such a terrible narration would have been released - it’s embarrassing to listen to and totally detracts from what is a great (if dated) story.

Spoiled by an appalling narrator

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This story is an old friend but the terrible accents and mispronounced words were annoying.

Fun and light hearted.

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Really if you can’t do accents, you shouldn’t try. Hilarious!! Classic Gilly Cooper, definitely of it’s time

The Accents are hilarious!

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Couldn’t pronounce the words properly and so was often left thinking what? Appalling accents - Italian sounded like something my four year old would pronounce but the story is great - very much of its time so rather misogynistic and would be a #metoo situation now. However gotta love Jilly Cooper

Great book - narrator dreadful

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Lovely to be reminded of this old ‘classic’ - though be prepared for some VERY dated and dodgy attitudes - sexism etc
However experience let down by some very poor and repeated mispronunciations throughout the narration - feels like there’s no production process. Shame.

Great nostalgia but grating narration

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I loved this book when it was first published - and looked forward to listening to an old favourite. It was almost spoiled by the reader!!! Her “accents” drove me wild - but more importantly - her mispronunciation of so many simple words ( eg. Curate) - would have been laughable if not so irritating! A good reader makes such a difference to even the best of books. Often - I can overcome that by the end of the book - but this was still irritating me into the last chapter!

The reader !!

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So I always feel that we have to approach Jilly Cooper's romances in the same way that we would, say, Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, as dispatches from a different time when sexual politics and the treatment of women in society were very different. I listen to Jilly Cooper's books from time to time from nostalgia as I read them voraciously when they came out, but the rampant chauvinism is totally cringeworthy in today's more enlightened "woke" age, not to mention reminding us what life was like post pill but pre-AIDS. WASP-male world indeed. There's quite a lot of clunky terminology, even more clunky behaviour but the most clunks came from the narrator. Did she not read the book through at all before she recorded it? There was so much mispronounciation that what started as making me giggle ended in making me fume with irritation at the sheer unprofessionalism of it all. Did nobody else at the publishers listen to the recordings either? Apart from that, the narration was just okay aside, again, from her Irish accent which lived for most of the time on Merseyside (shame the "hero" was supposed to be Irish) and when one of the French characters was supposed to speak in a Yorkshire accent I thought she was going to do her epiglottis a mischief. So, lots of problems, but Jilly Cooper, along with Jackie Collins, invented the genre of the chick-lit bonkbuster and certainly writes a great story. I was immediately transported back to the early 1970s, the sights, the smells and the sexism. If you can see past that, and some words which may cause offence, then 10/10 for the story, 3/10 for the narration

Narrated by Mrs Malaprop

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Good story, well written and well read, really enjoyed this book. Would recommend to anyone.

Fantastic

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It was a simple non complicated listen ! Nothing too taxing. Enjoyed the narration as well.

A nice story

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Great old favourite- definitely of its time but narrator was just dreadful - accents all over the place and mispronouncing so many words. The curating curate stuck in my mind.

Love the old story - silly and very funny (but of its time) HATED the narration.

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