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Brouhaha
- Narrated by: Ardal O'Hanlon
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
The razor-sharp, violent and darkly comic second novel from actor, comedian and writer Ardal O’Hanlon.
Dove Connolly is dead. That’s not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove.
Now his best friend, Sharkey, is home asking awkward questions about Dove’s death, about the strange graphic novel he left behind and, most of all, about Sandra. Sandra Mohan. Missing now for more than a decade, whereabouts unknown.
This, however, is a town dead-set on keeping its secrets. And Sharkey is already drawing attention from all the wrong quarters….
A mystery, a black comedy, a satire on Ireland’s tangled politics of memory, Brouhaha is set in a small town on the Irish border during the uneasy transition to peace. And peace doesn’t come easy in these parts.
Over the past few days, Kevin, no flies on him, had sensed a tension in the town thanks to Dove Connolly’s poor decision to blow his own head off. It wasn’t just the act of self-harm itself, the pointless splattering of blood and bone and brain all over his bedroom wall, that was the issue, unsettling as that was. In so doing, poor Dove had spread panic amongst the townspeople, raising all sorts of ugly questions, reviving all sorts of rumours, and inviting all sorts of unwelcome attention upon them. In Kevin’s mind, there was method in Dove’s madness. Showing a shocking assertiveness for possibly the first time in his life, and the last, says you, Dove blew the lid off the whole town.
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- Lisa Broderick
- 05-06-22
Brilliant story
Very dark subject matter but brilliantly written and with some wonderful language and laugh out loud moments - a gem !!
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- robbie
- 02-06-22
Some book for one book
If u love a murder mystery this book is your one!
Peppered with lots of Irish comedy peppered through!
Very thoughtful in its moments of comedy!
Just hope he gets the next one done a lot sooner!
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- Mr Richard McGill
- 26-02-23
Tough listen
I love Ardal but I agree with others he should have got a professional reader to read it. It would have separated the characters and give them more individuality. I also think Ardal being Irish went off track telling some irrelevant tails, but I guess he must have killed the Blarney Stone.
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- J F Browne
- 25-10-22
Excellent tragic story based in a complex time and location
It took a while to get going but somehow that is reflective of the nature of the environment in which the story was set. No big bangs or exciting car chases but nevertheless deadly and real. The setting near the border shortly after the peace added an particularly Irish context which added more depth - a great listen and personal performance by O’Hanlon.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-09-22
Don't waste your money
Sadly the description of the story was much better than the actuality. confusion narrative, badly read the story jumps all over the place and it very hard to keep up with. Avoid.
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- Katharine
- 27-07-22
O'Hanlon has a gorgeous voice!
I could listen to Ardal O'Hanlon read the telephone directory, his voice is so delicious!
This is a good attempt at a detective novel, unfortunately, I have been listening to Dickens, Hardy, Austin and Tolstoy over the last 2 Covid years and so this sort of book feels very thin.
It might make great TV however!
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- Mary Mc Eneaney
- 14-07-22
A bit of a struggle
I struggled a bit to finish this and if I’m honest, I finished it out of a strange sense of loyalty - you see, I come from the same town as the author. For me, a major problem was the authors decision to narrate himself. As a fan of Fr. Ted, I could not shake the feeling that I was listening to Fr. Dougle Mc Guire. Careful now!
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- wynda1811
- 12-07-22
Quite a tough listen
An ok story spun over too many hours. Was really optimistic about this book but I really felt it could have been done in half the time and half the words. A lot of filler with a fairly rudimentary conclusion. Shame
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- michael cunnane.
- 20-06-22
How did this book get published.Absolute rubbish !
struggled to finish it.A promising start but the book lost its way after an hour and just went on and on aimlessly.
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- Mrs C
- 20-06-22
Great!
I loved the story and the storey telling.... can't wait for Ardal to pen another book.
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