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The Spoilt City

By: Olivia Manning
Narrated by: Harriet Walter
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It is 1940, and Guy and Harriet Pringle and their friends in the English colony in Bucharest find their position growing ever more precarious. The phony war is over and invasion by the Germans is an ever-present threat...

This is the second part of The Balkan Trilogy, which began with The Great Fortune and concludes with Friends and Heroes.

©1962 The Estate of Olivia Manning (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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Best reading and narration in a long time.

Recently recommended by Alan Furst at the SFJCC, this is #2 in the trilogy. Every second is packed with detail and conveys the terror of the situation. Looking forward to #3.

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Perfect narration

Perfect narration and a powerful book. World War Two as seen in its awful ordinariness, and a study of the "experts" who always think they know best.

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A wonderful book, II in a trilogy

I really enjoyed this. It gives a wonderful sense of a British community awaiting a German invasion of a neutral country, not really wanting to believe it. The characters are so well drawn and the voices of each of them so typical of the expat personality of the day.

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Thrilling cannnot stop

Thrilling storey, relatable characters, engaging performance by the reader. Cannot stop listening and reading and rereading as it goes

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