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Man and Boy
- Narrated by: Charlie Anson
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
The 20th anniversary edition of the multi-million copy bestseller!
Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away.
A modern classic, Man and Boy is a hilarious and touching novel about how Harry comes to terms with his life, brings up his son alone and, gradually, learns what words like love and family really mean.
Critic reviews
"Wistful, touching and funny." (Mail on Sunday)
"Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns." (Express)
"A sharp, witty and wise book straight from the heart." (Daily Mail)
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- Mr. F. Scalzo
- 11-02-21
1st audible book
Great book, well read, funny and kept me entertained on drives to from work. looking forward to follow up which is now in my library.
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- Lynn Ball
- 17-10-21
Loved it
This was well written and well narrated. Want to read more Tony Parsons books now.
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- Anne
- 30-08-19
Fantastic!
Thoroughly enjoyed this story of life and death. So many of my own feelings following the death of a loved one, it made me cry and smile.
Well done Tony and thank you.
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- Stacey Morris
- 30-07-19
this could have been my life
a stunning view of a normal man trying to live a good life,and becoming that one person he never thought he would become
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- William
- 14-09-19
Tugging at the Heart Strings
Thank you Mr. Parsons
You have really captured the thoughts and feelings that have passed through me over the years.
The power and feeling of love, the inevitability of life and the frailty and men (and woman) not realising what they have.
Great narration
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- S I.
- 22-08-19
Great story but poor editing
The Tony Parson Max Wolfe books are amongst my favourites so I was quite excited to hear about a new audible book from the author of a different genre. I wasn’t disappointed! A totally different style to the gritty crime thrillers but a really good, thought provoking tale that kept me gripped.
My only complaint (and this is becoming a regular theme) is with the editing. The narration was fantastic but spoilt by inappropriate gaps between passages, e.g. long pauses between what were clearly sentences within the same paragraph, coupled with short or virtually non-existent gaps between separate chapters. This ruined the flow of the narration and threw me out of sync with the story. Recording must take hours and hours, surely piecing it together is the easy bit? Do the recordings not get quality checked? I just don’t understand why this happens in so many audiobooks - I’ve never seen a printed book with incorrectly formatted text!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-05-21
A great book! looking forward to the next one
Great book, I will download the next one straight away well done Tony Parsons. :)
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- JLE
- 21-06-21
Heartwarming
Loved it. I fancied a change from the usual murder mystery or fantasy I normally read. It was a lovely story, well read, really enjoyed listening.
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- Mrs. Susan Hunter
- 30-03-24
Best book I have ever listened to!
I just could not put this book down. It made me laugh, made me happy and also very sad at the end , I was dreading it finishing!
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- Liz
- 13-10-19
Great story, lovely narration, but......
I absolutely love Tony Parsons and have listened to almost all the books of his that have been recorded to audio.
This was a heartwarming story that made me laugh out loud at times, giggle at others and want to cry in some places.
But the poor audio editing was a real problem for me, as I can see it has been for another reviewer. I do understand that audiobooks are recorded in sections, but this is the first audio book I’ve listened to where the breaks between sentences and paragraphs have been so badly edited. In some places, where a natural break would have added to the story, the narrative continued which left me having to catch up for a few seconds when I realised there was probably a full stop in the written version that would have made that part of the story make sense. Other times there were what felt like huge gaps, only to find the next section of narrative a continuation of the former. This really affected my enjoyment of the audible version of what is a really nice story.
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