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    After the Party
    After the Party
    After the Party
    Audiobook8 hours

    After the Party

    Written by Cressida Connolly

    Narrated by Ana Clements

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    It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister’s grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: the appointment of a great and charismatic new leader who will restore England to its former glory.

    At a party hosted by her new friends, Phyllis lets down her guard for a single moment, with devastating consequences. Years later, Phyllis, alone and embittered, recounts the dramatic events which led to her imprisonment and changed the course of her life forever.

    Powerful, poignant, and exquisitely observed, After the Party is an illuminating portrait of a dark period of British history which has yet to be fully acknowledged.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateDec 14, 2021
    ISBN9781094435909
    Author

    Cressida Connolly

    Cressida Connolly was born in 1960. She is a journalist and reviewer. She lives in Worcestershire with her husband and three children.

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    • 2/5
      So slow and took so long to get to the point
    • 4/5
      This book is a sad reflection of the past hopefully it won't be repeated. Written very well. The characters are believable. The events have proven to be fact, but this book is not a reflection of actual events but written, so we remember.
    • 2/5
      I don't know which is more boring , the writing or the audio. I listened through chapter 8 just hoping the story would get interesting. No such luck!
    • 5/5
      Very well written. I hated to see the story end. I think this person`s life story has probably really happened, but we don`t know about her. So sad but very true too. It was well read too. Thank you
    • 5/5
      A nation that ate its own?
      Not as action-packed as you might like but this is an amazing historical novel about the build-up to WW2 and the way England’s powerbrokers and upper classes reacted to dissidents before and during the war—the country’s shameful, authoritarian way of incarcerating and outcasting peace-mongers.
    • 4/5
      An interesting story, although not a happy one or with a happy ending. Narration is uneven; at times it was very good, but most of the time it felt more like a news report with little emotion or “performance”.
    • 4/5
      SO BORING I couldn’t even get through Ch. 2… Idk if the story is any good, the synopsis made it sound interesting but the bland droll of the reader do NOTHING to make this worth listening to!!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Read for my reading group and unfortunately was all the things that I find boring in books. And I was bored right from the beginning and skim read to the end - at least it's short. There is a potentially interesting story to be told here about fascism in 1930s UK but I didn't like the writing style, the innumerable indistinguishable characters, the hint at murder drama plot when there WASN'T ANY!Just BLAH.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I’m just angry that I wasted my time with such a depressing book. Promising start, a bit boring though well written, then just bad to worse and then drawn out bleak dreariness, the end. I will never read another thing by this person.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I think this an unusual book in several ways. It is a superb character study of a woman who is neither hero nor villain, but rather a passenger in her own life. The historical setting accentuates that quality, allowing the reader to see both the advantages and disadvantages of such passivity and deliberate persistent lack of inquiry, or even interest, in deeper meanings and struggles. There is a persistent subtle irony that begins with the title itself. For me, it was a captivating and unusual point of view of mid-twentieth century Britain and the fascist movement within Britain itself. I listened to this as an audiobook and the narrator was superb, with an understated presentation that exactly fit the main character.

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    • 4/5
      wonderful and heartbreaking