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London, Burning
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s and the end of an era. It concerns a nation divided against itself, a government trembling on the verge of collapse, a city fearful of what is to come and a people bitterly suspicious of one another. In other words, it is also a novel about now.
Vicky Tress is a young policewoman on the rise who becomes involved in a corruption imbroglio with CID. Hannah Strode is an ambitious young reporter with a speciality for skewering the rich and powerful. Callum Conlan is a struggling Irish academic and writer who falls in with the wrong people. Freddie Selves is a hugely successful theatre impresario stuck deep in a personal and political mire of his own making. These four characters, strangers at the start, happen to meet and affect the course of each other's lives profoundly.
The story plots an unpredictable path through a city choked by strikes and cowed by bomb warnings. It reverberates to the sound of alarm and protest, of police sirens, punk rock, street demos, of breaking glass and breaking hearts in dusty pubs. As the clock ticks down towards a general election, old alliances totter and the new broom of capitalist enterprise threatens to sweep all before it. It is funny and dark, violent but also moving.
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- K. A. Mosedale
- 08-06-21
Great storytelling
It took a while to fully draw me in but then it was captivating and skillfully narrated. I'm missing the characters already and hoping for a sequel.
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- Mark A Wells
- 31-12-21
absolutely fabulous
Excellent story - so evocative of London on the brink of change. Any chance of a sequel Mr.Quinn?
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- C. Milton
- 08-03-22
Not Challenging
A good narrative of the Winter of Discontent but was somewhat lacking in the story
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- Dennis O'Bell
- 30-07-21
Mr Quinn does it again
This is another cracker from this author, having enjoyed the Freya series I was looking forward to reading/listening to this and yet again the fabulous Anthony Quinn delivers. He has a fantastic ability to bring several threads together with wit and authenticity. I look forward to his next novel and highly recommend this novel, great entertainment and a credit well spent.
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- Carole Scott
- 23-06-21
Great plot, great sense of place, great characters
Really enjoyed this (audiobook); this was a deft, smart novel from start to finish, with great characters whose lives intersected in clever ways. And it captured so well the tension of London in the late 70s. Great narration.
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