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The Choir

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What to expect

In the gentle world of one of England’s beautiful old cathedral towns, crisis looms: funds are short, and the cathedral is in need of major repair.

One faction of the community argues that the obvious solution is to abolish the expensive, and nowadays rather irrelevant, boys’ choir. But of course, there are those who disagree: the choir school’s headmaster, a conscientious scholar somewhat out of his depth with his elusive, poetical wife; the cathedral organist and choirmaster, brilliant, wayward, and in love with the lead chorister’s married mother; the former lead chorister, now twenty-three and directionless, who haunts his old school looking for a sense of purpose; and the gentle, left-wing bishop, trying to soothe the angry protagonists.

Their stories are marvelously woven into this enchanting story of modern life in old-world England.

Critics Review

“A modern Barchester Chronicle.”

Sunday Telegraph (London)

“This is great entertainment, made all the more enjoyable by May’s easy style.”

Kliatt

“Reader Nadia May is perfect for this book, with her sprightly British intonations. She offers a sense of wryness in keeping with the tale. This recording is very much recommended wherever low-key, nicely written contemporary novels are popular.”

Library Journal

“As in the music that pervades the plot of Trollope’s absorbing novel, contrapuntal technique results in a brilliant composition…Sacred music, the perfect treble of pre-pubescent boys and delicious deadpan understatement create a uniquely rich soundtrack on the pages of this beautifully crafted tale.”

Publishers Weekly
Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Wanda McCaddon
Duration 8 hours and 50 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781481575027
Format Audiobook
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Genre Fiction: general and literary
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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