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The Boy They Tried to Hide
- The true story of a son, forgotten by society
- Narrated by: Shane Dunphy
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
The Boy They Tried to Hide is the startling true account of how truth is sometimes stranger than fiction....
Shane Dunphy was working as a resource teacher in a rural town when he was approached by the mother of one of his pupils, seeking help. She is worried for her troubled young son, who has been found leaving the house late at night to go deep into the woods near their home. He has spoken of meetings with a friend, Thomas, but no one else has seen him or knows who he is.
As Shane tries to discover what's going on, a sexual predator he helped bring to justice years before reappears. The man is looking to settle a score and has picked someone close to Shane as his next victim.
In The Boy They Tried to Hide, Shane Dunphy revisits cases he encountered during his time as a child protection worker and journalist and, in doing so, once again discovers that leaving the past behind is harder than it seems.
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- Em&Me
- 19-11-20
Terrible recording, brilliant book
The recording on this is awful; the listener can loudly hear pages being turned, sometimes the sentences repeat, sometimes there is terrible fuzzy noise over the recording (and not the outside recordings, I mean the studio ones), occasionally there are gaps in the middle of a sentence.
Where was the sound editor?
Although I have written all of that about the sound I have to give this 5 stars. As always, Shane Dunphy is tenacious and brilliant. He has written his own story and tells it with dignity.
As with all of Shane Dunphy’s books, the story isn’t an easy listen, but it is a necessary one.
Brilliant.
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- jamie
- 28-06-19
Brillant and very engaging
I finished it in less the 24 hours. It's fine through so many topics. Highly recommend it.
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- Matt T
- 21-01-22
a great little story
a great little story, with sadness and some joy, well written and read. unexpected twists and some unnerving parts to the story with sadly a few expected tragedies.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-03-21
Really enjoyed this book .
True stories are always the best. Very well narrated. Looking forward to reading more of his books
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- Jennifer Jefferson
- 08-12-19
Poorly presented
The reading was dreadful. No pauses where there should have been, and very long pauses in other sections , sentences repeated, and the sound of the page turning at one point. Spoilt a good tale.
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- Al
- 17-11-20
Fantastic narrative, production needs work
This is the third audiobook I have purchased by Shane Dunphy. All three are beautifully written and narrated, but this audiobook needs some serious work on the production. All through it there are clicks and pops, no silences between chapters which makes Shane sound like he's rushing through it, and at the end it seems the production was abandoned altogether. We can hear Shane pause to turn pages and even repeat phrases.
Shane writes beautifully and narrates with such conviction that you are transported back to environments he was in. For this reason I highly recommend The Boy They Tried To Hide.
Shame about the recording.
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- Amy Mc Alister
- 21-04-24
I have read better books in my lifetime
Listened to this as part of a book club, and if I had been offered this book outside of this setting, it would not have been read.
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- Fiona Keates
- 09-06-24
Really poor quality recording
Really poor quality recording. Sound goes loud and quiet. Narrator would mix the voices up for the different characters
Story is based on fact but lots of flaws and errors made it somewhat unbelievable
Title of the story is bit misleading as there is no boy that is being hidden by anyone
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- Anney2205
- 05-01-17
Boring
I found this book quite boring but i had to finish it.. I didn't chose very well and returned the book
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- Deirdre Byrne
- 13-12-19
Rambling nonsense.
Unfortunately not for me. I found the story quite boring and disjointed. The characters were flat which is very surprising considering this is a "true account". Descriptions were clumsy and a lot of it felt like filler. The authors take on rural Ireland didn't sit well with me, it didn't make any sense for a young man who took his own life to have only 2/3 people at his funeral, even if he was a criminal, that's absurd.
Why did the kids speak like 3 year olds? Gregory who was supposed to be very bright spoke like a peasant child from the 1700's. The narration grated on me as well, the voices were almost cartoonish at times, Ballsack was ridiculous and his voice actually changed a few times.
Really disappointed that I wasted a credit on this book.
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