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The Lie of the Land
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Chosen as Book of the Year by The Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, Sunday Times and Irish Times.
Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize and move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded.
Mud, mice and quarrels are one thing - but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing, yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty, revenge, abuse and violence which will rise up to threaten them.
Sally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless, knows a different side to country life, as both a Health Visitor and a sheep farmer's wife; and when Lottie's innocent teenage son, Xan, gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another. At the end of their year, the lives of all will be changed forever.
A suspenseful black comedy, this is a rich, compassionate and enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside and the potentially lethal interplay between money and marriage.
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- Tristram
- 11-03-2018
Good piece of literary fiction with some thrills
Found it to be well-written and insightful concerning marriage and the human condition. Some big thrills and spills in there too, to keep you turning the page.
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