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No Man's Land
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
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No Man's Land
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Summary
From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam Raine’s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently entering the modern world.
Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in the slums of Islington is brought to an end by a tragedy that sends him north to Scarsdale, a hard-living coalmining town where his father finds work as a union organizer. But it isn’t long before the escalating tensions between the miners and their employer, Sir John Scarsdale, explode with terrible consequences.
In the aftermath, Adam meets Miriam, the Rector’s beautiful daughter, and moves into Scarsdale Hall, an opulent paradise compared with the life he has been used to before. But he makes an enemy of Sir John’s son, Brice, who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station.
When love and an Oxford education beckon, Adam feels that his life is finally starting to come together – until the outbreak of war threatens to tear everything apart.
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- Cylestra
- 20-09-16
Average Book - Awful Narration
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
There's very little a great narrator can do to improve an awful book, but an awful narrator can absolutely savage a half-decent story! No man's Land needs a damn good edit to excise some of the meandering waffle that pervades the start and end of the book and which actually detracts from what is a gripping and detailed depiction of the First World War. But I might have forgiven that had the narration not been so terrible. Steven Crossley's style seems best suited to four year-olds or the educationally sub-normal, employing an odd, upward intonation at the end of sentences which sounds a bit patronising and hence begins to grate very early on. Combined with absolutely ridiculous attempts at female voices (thankfully the female character who he decided should sound like Brian's mum in Life Of Brian died relatively early) and comedic 'posh' and 'common' voices, it really is a groan-inducing listen at points.
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