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Author: Anita Brookner
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Judith Whale
Duration 8h 45m
Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty and solitude, made worse by the early death of his friend Putnam. Into his life comes the invasive and mercurial Katy Gibb, with designs on George that are unquestionably financial. To George however she represents a last chance to abandon discretion a...
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Judith Whale
Duration 6h 30m
Sofka Dorn, matriarch of a prosperous German family living in England, rules her four children with a strong hand. Frederick, the eldest son, is a 'disgracefully charming' ladies' man, adored and indulged by his mother, as is his flirtatious sister Betty. Alfred and Mimi, steady and solitary, are a disappointment, for their mother values boldness a...
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