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Brother Fish

By: Bryce Courtenay
Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
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 From the author of The Power of One comes an inspiring human drama and war story of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life. Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, soldier, dreamer, and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Larger than life, Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a street kid and leader of a New York gang. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea. Narrated by celebrated, award-winning actor Humphrey Bower.©2013 Christine Courtenay (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty. Ltd Genre Fiction Heartfelt Thought-Provoking

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  • 2005 Audie Award Nominee, Literary Fiction
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This is so worth the listen, really well read, and characterised well. As well as being quite an absorbing story, you learn a lot along the way, I'll be shopping for more of the same.

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The concept of Brother Fish is so good and as always I don’t want the story to end.
Humphrey Bowers is such a great narrator and adds so much to all of Bryce Courtney books.
Bryce is one of my favourite story tellers

Bryce Courtney books are full of believable characters and story lines .

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Excellent book. A great story, that is very well written and brilliantly read. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Excellent.

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As usual Humphrey Bower drew you in so well you were gripped from the outset. You do not know where this book is going at first however you have to keep listening. A story of courage, friendships and sorrow between three people from different worlds and class brought together and bonds formed that couldn’t ever be broken.
It’s one of the best I have listed to and worth every minute I gave it.

Gripping

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Outstanding storytelling. Fantastic performance, had me wanting to know what was going to happen to each character.

Hooked from the first paragraph.

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I've listen to lots of great books, but this one is at the top with just a few others. I thought at first I'd made a mistake and selected a book solely about war - not so. It's a wonderful story that was totally engrossing and is brilliantly read. It was a real disappointment when I came to the end. Just don't miss this one.
By the way, I'm Jean not Rob - just in case you want a female critic.

Don't miss this one

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Great story, from beginning to end. Long but worth it. I would definitely recommend

fabulous

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One would be forgiven for thinking that this is an autobiography. I had to keep reminding myself that this is fiction, and yet the book has a definite sense of truth. There are harrowing images of the Korean war which must be first-hand descriptions of real experience. The prisoner of war experiences feel awfully truthful. Clearly a huge amount of research and many personal stories have been gathered to be welded together to construct a well crafted, very satisfying read. This is a book which will draw you in until you are thoroughly engrossed and reluctant to waste time sleeping when you could be listening. This is in no small part due to Humphrey Bower's outstanding ability to voice the characters. His range encompasses deep, dark African-American, Chinese both male and female, young and old, even an American-Chinese accent, not to mention shades of his native Australian and posh English. And for goodness sake he can sing in tune!
Bryce Courtenay has the ability to make his books very authentic. He can find the essence of what motivates the human heart and how people think and then show you what happens next. And he makes you want to find out.
The combination of narrator and author makes this an unmissable book. If you only buy one Audible book, make it this one.

A nominee for Best Book list.

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Exceptional story, highlighting many historical events and places, especially far east customs.... I very much enjoyed this audio book, Humphrey Bower who read this book was amazing.. many Thanks

Outstanding!!!!!

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Bryce Courtenay and Humphrey Bower are a story teller's marriage made in heaven.

This is not the kind of book I would normally buy on reading the cover, detailed horrors of prisoners or war is something that I don't want to face up to. The story makes it so matter of fact with the way it is written and read that it is like listening to someone you have known all your life telling it just like it is. But then there is the humour, coming through their darkest hour is the humour which catches you off guard and you laugh out loud.

The scrapes that the characters get into combined with their psychological highs and lows makes them so real and so loveable.

Mix this with the heart breaking story of a mother losing her new born child never to know of the child's life and welfare and you have a story that is riveting.

With a narrator who can manage to sing convincingly like an American negro who is trying to affect an Irish accent - you can't go wrong.

I even listened to the credits and for a nice change they sounded so very sincere. Bryce Courtenay goes to a lot of trouble to find individuals with the right mix of experience that he needs to write stories like he was there: in the poverty and filth of back street Kowloon, hospital caves in North Korea and fishing villages of Tasmania.

I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

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