After reading What We Can See, I didn’t relish another McEwan novel, but had nothing more enticing available at the OPL, and Vera insisted that this was his best.
The complex plot includes a false accusation of rape and a prison sentence, the dramatic rescue of soldiers at Dunkirk, and several attempts of the young girl who accused the man of rape to correct her testimony, the last as she is suffering from vascular dementia as an old woman.
The narrator of an audiobook has a powefull influence on it’s degree of enjoyment. In this case, the staccato high pitched rapid-fire heavily-accented voice varying between inaudible whispers and shill shouts had the effect on me of inducing a losing battle with my eyelids, that kept wanting to close.
I think I would have enjoyed this book far more as an physical book or an ebook.
3/5
Thanks, Vera
The Passionate Reader 