The best Troy

Not the last book written but the book set the latest in Troy’s life. Spans every event in London in 1963 wonderully well. Cannot recommend highly enough. Stands very well as a single book.
Massive praise for Sara Coward’s narration. Beautiful voice and helps with the enjoyment.

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Older and even more cynical

First of all, let’s get the narration out of the way. So it’s a bit annoying when an excellent narrator is swapped for another but Sara Coward does a good job here. The reviewer who said a woman couldn’t narrate this story because it’s all about men (🙄) needs a long hard look in the mirror.

Anyway, despite never quite getting a grip on what order any of this series takes place in, I thoroughly enjoyed this Profumo-esque story. It’s definitely one of the darker and more cynical stories in the series but very satisfying.

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Not the right narrator for so many male characters

Perhaps I’ve become too accustomed to Lewis Hancock narrating the other books but as effective as this Ms Coward was one can’t get past the mental image of her chucking her chin to her chest and scowling for every male character, and throwing in a hint of northern if they happen to be cross. One voice (not including ‘all purpose foreigner’). The naive cockney sparra teenager nearly made me give up.

Dutifully moving to the next John Lawton, braced once again for the main character to coincidentally know everyone involved (this book was not as bad for that as the last) and hoping the plot carries interest to the end.

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Excellent in every respect

Brilliant, complicated plot. Sara Coward's narration was superb, I preferred it to the narration of the other books if not more so. This is the 3rd book in the series that I have listened to, I will purchase the others.
Troy, the main character, is an amoral, unlikable man, but this isn't important. some of the elements of the story are distasteful to me, but that's lide, sadly.
i would give it 10 stars.

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Lewis Hancock is perfect for Lawton, unfortunately...

The reader does as good a job as she can but it's an odd choice to have a female actor reading a book in which all the key characters are men. Doubly so when Lewis Hancock fits hand in glove with Lawton's excellent books.

Lawton and Hancock turn the Troy and Wilderness books into works of art so this is frustrating. A real pity they didn't use Hancock for this one. I guess they had a good reason.

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Couldn’t get into the book because of the narration

The narration of this book is simply awful compared to the previous novels. Why do the publishers change such things.

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