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The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall
- Author
- Paul Torday
- Narrator
- Richard Mitchley
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 5 January 2012
- Run Time
- 7 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
With the debts mounting, it seems that Ed's only recourse is to turn to his friend Annabel's new boyfriend, a property developer who plans to turn Hartlepool Hall into luxury flats and a golf course. But can Ed save his inheritance without such a drastic move? And is Lady Alice really the person she claims to be?
Read by Richard Mitchley
(p) 2012 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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It's a novel that should enhance his reputation for excellent, ingenious writing
METRO
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More intriguing is the skein of darkness that, in common with much of Torday's fiction, runs discretely through the story - one sequence is sufficiently macabre as to recall the work of a young McEwan
LITERARY REVIEW
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It grabs you right from page one and is another great read from the author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
ESSENTIALS
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A novel that's quirky, funny, moving and peopled with superbly drawn characters
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A deliciously dark comedy about class, snobbery and a vanishing way of life
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
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This is a novel about decay and destruction, but bracingly unsentimental and surprisingly moving
GUARDIAN
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Gloriously enjoyable
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Details
- Author
- Paul Torday
- Narrator
- Richard Mitchley
- Duration
- 7 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 January 2012
- ISBN
- 9781409142072
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Family saga / generational saga fiction
Synopsis
Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he must return to his ancestral seat, Hartlepool Hall. On his return, he discovers that his father has left him, along with the house, a seven million pound tax bill, two massive overdrafts, an 80-year-old butler, and a vast country estate that is creaking at the seams. Not only that, but there is a strange woman in residence - Lady Alice - who seems to have made herself very much at home. With the debts mounting, it seems that Ed's only recourse is to turn to his friend Annabel's new boyfriend, a property developer who plans to turn Hartlepool Hall into luxury flats and a golf course. But can Ed save his inheritance without such a drastic move? And is Lady Alice really the person she claims to be?Read by Richard Mitchley(p) 2012 Orion Publishing Group
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