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  • Nineteen Seventy Four

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  • By: David Peace
  • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
  • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
  • 2.8 out of 5 stars (303 ratings)

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Nineteen Seventy Four

By: David Peace
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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Publisher's summary

Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. It’s winter, 1974, Yorkshire, Christmas bombs, Lord Lucan on the run, the Bay City Rollers, and Eddie Dunford’s got the job he wanted – crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Evening Post. He didn’t know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan’s wings stitched into her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.

In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings passion and stylistic bravado to this terrifyingly intense journey into a secret history of sexual obsession and greed, and starts a highly acclaimed crime series that has redefined how the genre is approached.

David Peace (born 1967) is an English author. He was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta in 2003 and won the 2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He is also known for his novels GB84 and The Damned United; the latter was made into a feature film starring Michael Sheen.

*Please note this audiobook contains explicit language.

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Critic reviews

" Nineteen Seventy Four is raw and furiously alive, the literary equivalent of a hard right to the jaw. David Peace has delivered the finest crime fiction debut of the year and joined a select group of novelists who are transforming the genre with passion and style." (George Pelecanos)
"Quite simply, this is the future of British crime fiction." ( Time Out)
"The pace is relentless, the style staccato-plus and the morality bleak and forlorn....Peace's voice is powerful and unique." ( Guardian)

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worst audible book

This was the worst book I've purchased. It is hard to follow the because it jumps all over the place with dreams mixed in. The main character is pathetic and impossible to like or even hate. The narrator has the same voice even when changing characters.

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Worst book I have ever read

It may be the English customs but the language, and the horrific details in this novel were way over the top.

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Disturbing

found this hard going very graffic and not good to listen to. If you are not into graffic violence, sex and language then this book is not for you.

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Could not force myself to get to the end.

Lousy plot, lousy language, unimaginative.

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