Category: Adults, Crime, Mystery
Language: EnglishKeywords: British Literature
Written by Jonathan Coe
Read by Sam Woolf, Alana Maria, Charlotte Worthing, Mark Stobbart, Roy McMillan
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 11-07-24
Brought to you by Penguin.
Post-university life doesnât suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere.
That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. Heâs been investigating a radical think tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, thatâs been scheming to push the British government in an ever more extreme direction. When he follows this story to a conference in a rambling old hotel deep in the Cotswolds, events take a bizarre and sinister turn. Soon he is caught up in a world of cryptic clues, secret passages and, eventually, murder.
In the end, despite the efforts of a suitably eccentric detective, it falls to Phyl herself â ably assisted by Chrisâs outspoken adopted daughter Rashida - to look for answers to the fatal mystery. But will they lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?
Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 11-07-24
Brought to you by Penguin.
Post-university life doesnât suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere.
That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. Heâs been investigating a radical think tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, thatâs been scheming to push the British government in an ever more extreme direction. When he follows this story to a conference in a rambling old hotel deep in the Cotswolds, events take a bizarre and sinister turn. Soon he is caught up in a world of cryptic clues, secret passages and, eventually, murder.
In the end, despite the efforts of a suitably eccentric detective, it falls to Phyl herself â ably assisted by Chrisâs outspoken adopted daughter Rashida - to look for answers to the fatal mystery. But will they lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?