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Narrated by:
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Eileen Atkins
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Angela Carter
About this listen
Never apart for long, the two are very much peas from the same pod: Sir Melchior Hazard, surviving head of a great acting dynasty, who is imminently to celebrate his 100th birthday. Packed with gags, tears, histories, mysteries, feuds and romantic (and some not-so-romantic) unions, 'Wise Children', like the Chance girls, doesn't miss a trick, and is jam-packed with all of the entrancing magic realism and nouveau-feminism that has ensconced Angela Carter so snugly in the canon of revered cult writers.
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"Angela Carter�s (Wise Children) (...) is sheer and utter bliss, brilliantly read by Eileen Atkins."(The Express)
"What a bouncy and immediate new dimension audiobooks bring to books that are written with ebullience, firecracker wit and unstoppable pace." (The Times)
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- Valerie
- 14-04-13
Wise children - great choice
The writing by Angela Carter is amazingly vivid with a great use of language. It creates a robust but decidedly unsentimental view of the post war period. The reading by Eileen Atkins is absolutely authentic. The voice, the phrasing and the timing makes it seem as though this is an intimate chat by the personality rather than an actor reading words. The book and the characters really came alive.
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- Mrs Gill White
- 08-05-18
another truly immersive story
I haven't read any Angela Carter for years but recalled loving nights at the circus. loved the one even more, such a strange tale and perfectly narrated.
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- Rachio
- 23-04-20
brilliantly read
I've read this book several times so knew I'd enjoy the story but I absolutely loved Eileen Aitken's performance, absolutely brilliant!
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- Radio Fan
- 11-11-17
Best audio book I've ever heard
What a great loss the quirky, brilliant hugely imaginative and humane Angela Carter was. I read this years ago when it first came out - but Eileen Atkins's pitch-perfect reading made me gurgle with delight. What a National Treasure she is.
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- gemlilies
- 30-11-15
Brilliant entertainment, naughty, funny and nostalgic-a real treat.
The narration of the story is brilliant I really enjoyed the characters the plot and the history.
Wickedly funny in places this story had me in tears of laughter and at times sadness. Overall the story is down to earth witty poignant - thoroughly recommended.
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- Stephanie Jane (Literary Flits)
- 08-07-13
Engrossing storytelling
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I absolutely loved this audiobook and was quite bereft when it finished. Not only does Angela Carter tell a fascinating story, but the narration was a perfect fit to the main character. There is a wonderful sense of time and place and I found it easy to imagine the different characters from the book itself and from the way they were voiced.
I highly recommend Wise Children and will be looking out for more Angela Carter audiobooks.
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- Polly M
- 26-02-15
Love it!
I loved this book and the performance was great, it was just a shame about the musical interludes as they were rather cheesy.
I'd like to see some more Angela Carter audio books. .. perhaps Nights at the circus?
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- Simone Chalkley
- 12-04-18
Brilliantly written tragicomedy had me in stitches
Angela Carter has a certain je ne sais quoi with words, genius difficult to replicate.
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- remuera
- 07-01-17
Enjoyable
Eileen Atkins reading of this book is wonderfully atmospheric and is a joy. The story gives a good description of the world of music hall and its demise when television took over.
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- B.
- 07-10-16
An entertaining novel made perfect by the narrator
One of the most enjoyable audiobooks I've listened to in the last year. Eileen Atkins' sly Cockney accent is perfect for the narrator, Dora, 75 year old cynical realist of the once-famous twin Chance Sisters. She manages to bring out every innuendo and irony of Carter's text as Dora relates the story of the Chance Sisters, their thirty-some years on the circuit in Britain and the US as a singing/dancing act, and of their relationship with the more famous Hazards, a great English acting family. The story is fabulous, over the top, funny, and endearing, and as told by Atkins, it's a pure treat. I loved every minute of it. Bravo!
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