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My Father's House
Rome Escape Line (Related to this series)
- Author
- Joseph O'Connor
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 26 January 2023
- Run Time
- 11 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain.
An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. Here Hugh brings together an unlikely band of friends to hide the vulnerable under the noses of the enemy.
But Hauptmann's net begins closing in on the Escape Line and the need for a terrifyingly audacious mission grows critical. By Christmastime, it's too late to turn back.
Based on an extraordinary true story, My Father's House is a powerful literary thriller from a master of historical fiction. Joseph O'Connor has created an unforgettable novel of love, faith and sacrifice, and what it means to be truly human in the most extreme circumstances.
© Joseph O'Connor 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
Critics Review
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A spectacular, thrilling novel...suspense crackles...celebrates triumphant against-the-odds camaraderie.
Sunday Times
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O'Connor is on stellar form with this ensemble thriller ...while the story's inbuilt tension urges you on, it's the sheer vigour of O'Connor's beautifully turned phrases that really makes the book sing...an expert storyteller
Daily Mail
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A literary thriller of the highest order. The incarnation of O'Flaherty, the Irish Oskar Schindler, is sublime. What often elevates a writer is compassion, and O'Connor has it in spades... Beautifully crafted, his razor-sharp dialogue is to be savoured, and he employs dark humour to great effect. The plot twists keep on coming
Observer
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Breathtakingly good writing - O'Connor puts you right there, centre stage in the story and never lets you go
Peter James
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The novel's evocative scene-setting, its propulsive narration and its powerful depiction of bravery and unity in extremis, all make for an engrossing read.
Telegraph
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Thrilling... Based on true events, this tense, gripping narrative is rendered in beautifully evocative prose
Mail on Sunday
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Impressive and pleasurable...the diverse ventriloquism of O'Connor's novel evokes a city in peril with wonderful vitality
Financial Times
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A tale worth re-telling, adorned as it is by the brilliants of O'Connor's impressionistic writing
The Times
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A powerful portrait of extraordinary courage
Irish Independent
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Precisely choreographed... We eagerly follow the characters through uncertainty and disappointment as well as high-stakes jeopardy. O'Connor is playing with the possibilities of multiple narrators, and thinking also about plurality, reliability and the historical record
Guardian, Book of the Day
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Details
- Author
- Joseph O'Connor
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 11 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 January 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529199864
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain.An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. Here Hugh brings together an unlikely band of friends to hide the vulnerable under the noses of the enemy.But Hauptmann's net begins closing in on the Escape Line and the need for a terrifyingly audacious mission grows critical. By Christmastime, it's too late to turn back.Based on an extraordinary true story, My Father's House is a powerful literary thriller from a master of historical fiction. Joseph O'Connor has created an unforgettable novel of love, faith and sacrifice, and what it means to be truly human in the most extreme circumstances.© Joseph O'Connor 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
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