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Narrator

Philip Franks

Philip Franks is an English actor and theatre director. Philip was born in London and first fell in love with theatre at age six, when his parents took him along to see a production of The Tempest. The following year, he insisted on going with them again to see a production of Hamlet, and at age seven, he was hooked for life. Philip is perhaps best known for his roles as tax inspector Cedric 'Charley' Charlton in the British sitcom The Darling Buds of May, and Sgt. Raymond Craddock on Heartbeat. He has also made guest appearances in Absolutely Fabulous, Pie in the Sky, Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War.

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Title:

Black Dogs (MP3)

Written by:

Ian McEwan 

Read by:

Philip Franks 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

5 hours  

MP3 size:

206 MB 

Published:

May 01 2020 

Available Date:

May 01 2020 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655667087 

Genres:

Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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Award winning author

Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider.

Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June’s memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encounter 40 years earlier – a moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy’s own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilisation’s darkest moods – its black dogs – with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.

'The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities ... we are conquered by the humanity, the urgency, of the novel's characters.'
New York Times Book Review

'Each scene is brilliantly lit, and has a characteristically strange fascination as Ian McEwan juxtaposes "huge and tiny currents" to show the ways in which individuals react to history.'
New York Review of Books