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The Bloater
- Author
- Rosemary Tonks
- Narrator
- Stewart Lee, Florence Howard
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 5 May 2022
- Run Time
- 4 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Min works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home, other matters of the heart are making a mockery of life as Min knows it.
Min has found herself the object of her lodger's affection. An internationally renowned opera singer she's nicknamed 'The Bloater', Min is disgusted and attracted to him in equal measure. But with a husband so invisible that she accidentally turns the lights off on him even when he's still in the room, Min can't quite bring herself to silence The Bloater's overtures.
Vain, materialistic, yet surprisingly tender, The Bloater is a sparklingly ironic comedy of manners for all flirtatious gossips who love to hate and hate to love.
'Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it's fantastic' Stewart Lee
'It is the perfect aperitif, makes you feel warm and careless and much, much happier' The Times
'Brittle, spry, spiky, amusing, a comedy of love... an original and distinctive flavour' Sunday Times
© Rosemary Tonks 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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The Bloater delights us by its wit, relish, and new-minted metaphors
Daily Telegraph
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Brittle, spry, spiky, amusing, a comedy of love... an original and distinctive flavour
Sunday Times
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[Tonks'] novels are valuable curios...of their time. They read like a strange hybrid of Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge with a dash of Joe Orton
The Times
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What a charismatic writer Rosemary Tonks is. The Bloater is lively and witty with some brilliant metaphors and descriptions, and so atmospheric. I really enjoyed it
Katy Wix
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It is about flirtation as a method of self-organization, and a crush as a method of self-torture. All of The Bloater, however-every single sentence-is funny
New Yorker
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Details
- Author
- Rosemary Tonks
- Narrator
- Stewart Lee, Florence Howard
- Duration
- 4 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529198379
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Romance, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Min works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home, other matters of the heart are making a mockery of life as Min knows it.Min has found herself the object of her lodger's affection. An internationally renowned opera singer she's nicknamed 'The Bloater', Min is disgusted and attracted to him in equal measure. But with a husband so invisible that she accidentally turns the lights off on him even when he's still in the room, Min can't quite bring herself to silence The Bloater's overtures.Vain, materialistic, yet surprisingly tender, The Bloater is a sparklingly ironic comedy of manners for all flirtatious gossips who love to hate and hate to love.'Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it's fantastic' Stewart Lee'It is the perfect aperitif, makes you feel warm and careless and much, much happier' The Times'Brittle, spry, spiky, amusing, a comedy of love... an original and distinctive flavour' Sunday Times© Rosemary Tonks 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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