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Sweet William
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Antonia Beamish
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 27 November 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother’s ambitions – more or less – while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people.
Then she meets William: snub-nosed and generous, cunning and protean. She is first seduced, then transfixed, as William’s past, present and future swirl around her kaleidoscopically, overwhelmingly, and Ann is herself irrevocably, and irreparably, changed.
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Details
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Antonia Beamish
- Duration
- 5 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399195645
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Thriller / suspense fiction, Humour
Synopsis
Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother’s ambitions – more or less – while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people. Then she meets William: snub-nosed and generous, cunning and protean. She is first seduced, then transfixed, as William’s past, present and future swirl around her kaleidoscopically, overwhelmingly, and Ann is herself irrevocably, and irreparably, changed.
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