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Noonday

By: Pat Barker
Narrated by: Anne Reid, Finlay Robertson, John Sackville, Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Boxer
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Noonday by Pat Barker, read by Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid & Finlay Robertson.

London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. Ambulance drivers Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville ferry injured survivors from bomb sites to hospitals while Elinor's husband, Paul, works as an air-raid warden.

Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art, before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, now all three find themselves caught in another war. And as the bombing intensifies, old loves and obsessions resurface until Elinor is brought face to face with an almost impossible choice.

Completing the story of Elinor, Paul and Kit that began with Life Class and continued with Toby's Room, Noonday is both a standalone novel and the climax of a trilogy.

Pat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city of London into electrifying life in her most powerful novel since the Regeneration trilogy.

©2015 Pat Barker (P)2015 Penguin Audio Fiction Genre Fiction War & Military England
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The characters are used fairly sparingly to string together some vivid, detailed descriptions of
life in the Second World War, especially the London Blitz.

Almost a documentary

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I read the book before listening, as I do all Pat Barker's, who hasn't written a bad book and I doubt is capable of doing. The second best book in this trilogy (the best being Toby's Room). The range of voices is well done, though of course there is the generic Northern accent used for Paul, who if I remember correctly is from the North East. You wouldn't know that from listening to this, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Another great novel from Pat Barker

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