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Bright Day
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in the bar sends him back to the England of 1913, when he was just 18 and longed to enter the seemingly magical world of the glamorous Alington family and its three lovely daughters.
Replaying the events of those days in his mind, Dawson relives a long-forgotten story that ended with a mysterious tragedy whose effects linger on in the present and threaten to shatter his placid existence.
In the vein of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, J. B. Priestley’s Bright Day (1946) is one of his finest works and his own favorite of his novels, a haunting and unforgettable evocation of a vanished England as yet unravaged by the devastation of two world wars.
“One of the best of J. B. Priestley’s novels...provides an opportunity to revalue a writer not merely hugely popular in his own day but also, with more than 100 titles to his credit, hugely prolific.” (Francis King, The Spectator)
“A glow of the magic of poignant rediscovery.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“I do not think Priestley has ever written anything better than this book.” (News Chronicle)
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- shezza
- 13-06-23
A good book spoiled
What a strange narrator! He reads at a slower than normal pace which makes it sound like a bedtime story for toddlers. I didn’t struggle with the accents, though all the female voices were pitched at an embarrassing maiden aunt level, but the slowness of speech made all the characters sound a little simple. I googled him and found that he describes himself as a narrator so I shall be wary of getting any more books read by him!
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- B. J. Laming
- 14-08-24
Nostalgia
In the last 60 years I read this wonderful Priestly novel twice. On the second occasion I soon found the context around the Allington Family familiar but was not inclined to stop reading it again to the end. The Title did not ring any bells when my failing eyesight drove me to Audible and although quickly recognising it I have thoroughly enjoyed reliving it through the Reader’s excellent performance. And as with Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and several other Authors it is possible to delight in gaining valuable new insights in a familiar work by revisiting it.
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- Janalyn
- 02-11-20
A really good read!
I love reading books written in a different time and place and this one was written right after World War II I found it fascinating. It is about a middle-age screen writer who sees an elderly couple in the hotel restaurant at the resort are you staying at the finish a screenplay. It is really nagging him that he knows these people and it takes a day or two but then it dawns on him they are Mr. and Mrs. Nick sleep The parents of three girls he was once friends with the year before World War I started. He is caught up in the memories of back then and it has and Epiphany that that was when life was good when the sun shone. The book is mostly am remembering those days and although that doesn’t sound exciting it is very entertaining especially with Hannibal Hill doing the audio he did so good in this book. I’m used to him not reading horror or sci-fi and this showed a whole new side to him that I loved. The whole book is absolutely excellent from the story to the performance, I wish she would do narration for more books like this. I highly recommend this book.
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- Ms Dawn L Tinsley
- 05-04-24
Had to waste a credit!
couldn't listen to it any longer than 1 hour. Narrator gave me a headache
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- N. Oldman
- 15-11-21
the narator refined this book for me.
I read this book years ago and looked forward to a re-visit, with the added bonus of being read to. The accents attempted are something out of a month python sketch. A great book destroyed. Hear a sample before you bother.
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