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Exposure

By: Helen Dunmore
Narrated by: Emma Fenney
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About this listen

By the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Lie.

Forbidden love, intimate betrayal and the devastating power of exposure drive Helen Dunmore's remarkable new title.

London, November 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets.

When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets and arrested.

His wife, Lily, suspects that his imprisonment is part of a cover-up and that more powerful men than Simon will do anything to prevent their own downfall. She knows that she, too, is in danger and must fight to protect her children.

But what she does not realise is that Simon has hidden vital truths about his past and may be found guilty of another crime that carries with it an even greater penalty.

©2016 Helen Dunmore (P)2016 Bolinda Espionage Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Military Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense War & Military Exciting Scary Suspense War

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Critic reviews

"A marvellous piece of seamless storytelling. A triumph." (Penelope Lively)
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend this book because it was engaging, unexpected and gripping. Well written.

What did you like best about this story?

The characters were exquisitely drawn and fascinating, and the narrative was tense and exciting.

What about Emma Fenney’s performance did you like?

The narrator was very good at performing as the different characters without excessively doing impressions or using accents - her voice is melodious and very listenable. One of the best audiobook narrators I've heard.

Brilliant reading, gripping story

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Brilliant book. The characters are so connectable. I felt guided through their lives & experiences by such a deft hand. Thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to end. Wonderful too to discover their strengths & weaknesses as the story draws to a breath-holding close.

What a tale!

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Very well performed but it didn't make up for what I felt almost lazy writing, in that I felt there could and should have been more twists and turns. It left me wanting

wanted more

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Took a while to get my interest as it's not a book I would normally go for. However I did enjoy it and would recommend.

Good listening

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this was an excellent story, evoking the cold war of the fifties and doctors in Britain. the echoes of the war and the atmosphere of coming up for air after the war. in fact it's a highly atmospheric book, at times claustrophobic and at others fresh with sea air. It was spoiled some what, b y the bff aeration and mispronounced words. however in general I loved it.

shame about the narration

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No. If I was to recommend a book by Helen Dunmore this is not the one I would choose. The story is totally predictable and while some of the characters are well delineated others are plain caricatures.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Avoided the clichéd homosexual spy ring and not tried to update The Railway Children.

What three words best describe Emma Fenney’s voice?

Refined, breathy, limited.

Was Exposure worth the listening time?

There are some good things in the book so I was glad to have listened to it but overall it was disappointing.

Any additional comments?

Why has Audible not released The Siege or The Betrayal by Dunmore? Really impressive books.

Average book from a usually impressive writer

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Gently unfolding story draws you in, partly due to excellent narration, and enjoyed through to probably the last couple of chapters - personally I felt the ending could have been more original otherwise highly recommended.

Curl up and escape with this story ...

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I found the main character well-rounded, but the rest rather lacklustre. The plot was almost nonexistent, but as the main character was interesting, I persisted and on balance am glad I did.

What did rather spoil my experience was the consistently weird pronunciation of what must be "Anstruther" as "Anstroother". Every time it was mispronounced it grated and snapped me back out of the book. This was unfortunate as the narrator otherwise did an excellent job.

Enjoyable to the end, but marred by consistent strange pronunciation of "Anstruther"

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I enjoyed this beautifully written, character-driven book. The story unfolds slowly as civil servant Simon and his German-born wife Lily are drawn into a nightmare accused of espionage after Simon does a favour for Giles, his colleague and long-time friend. Cold-war paranoia pervades the book as Simon is arrested and a bewildered Lily is subjected to intense questioning by the police. The book successfully evokes Lily’s plight as she tries to hold her family together as the machinery of the state takes over her life.

The narration is excellent.

Slow-burning, cold war nightmare

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I love the poetry in Helen Dunmore’s books , but more. She understands people the different layers in them, the way things sink deep inside them and occasionally come to the surface, secrets, memories they never quite forgot. She draws you inside, you care about them, you feel what they do.

Gripping, I had to find out what happened, the story becomes real

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