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Title: A Far Cry from Kensington
Author: Muriel Spark
Narrator: Pamela Garelick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-11
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation.
Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired young war widow, she spent her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher (of very good books) and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming house.
At work and at home, Mrs. Hawkins soon uncovered evil: shady literary doings and a deadly enemy; anonymous letters, blackmail, and suicide. With aplomb, however, Mrs. Hawkins confidently set about putting things to order, little imagining the mayhem that would ensue.
Now decades older, thin, successful, and delighted with life in Italyquite a far cry from KensingtonMrs. Hawkins looks back to all those dark doings and recounts how her own life changed forever. She still, however, loves to give advice: Its easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half. I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.
A Far Cry from Kensington has been hailed as outstanding (Observer), wickedly and adroitly executed (New York Times), and a comedy that holds a tragedy as an eggcup holds an egg. (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Critic Reviews:
Wickedly and adroitly executed. (The New York Times)
