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Goodbye Piccadilly
- War at Home, 2014
- By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In 1914, Britain faces a new kind of war. For Edward and Beatrice Hunter, their children, servants and neighbours, life will never be the same again. For David, the eldest, war means a chance to do something noble; but enlisting will break his mother's heart. His sister Diana, nineteen and beautiful, longs for marriage. She has her heart set on Charles Wroughton, son of Earl Wroughton, but Charles will never be allowed to marry a banker's daughter.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Prissy and Slow In One Grand Sweeping Motion
- By Sara on 01-11-15
- Goodbye Piccadilly
- War at Home, 2014
- By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
The story of how WWI affected one English middle class family in a village 20 miles outside London.
Reviewed: 01-20-25
The narrator is top notch; she does an excellent job of dialects from lower to upper classes, from American to Scottish accents, male & female. It’s a great story of England in the summer of 1914 coming to terms with the coming war. WWI was different from WWII, in that they had no Home Guard, prided themselves on not having conscription, yet were forced to requisition every horse and suddenly clothe, feed, and train millions. Against this backdrop we have suffragettes, lower classes suddenly realizing their worth, and romance at every level and every opportunity.
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The Umbrella
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance1 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English author, born in one of the "Five Towns" which form the background of so many of his witty stories. When Professor Malpetant pays an unannounced visit to his sister, Muriel, he finds nobody at home. Both Muriel and her maid, Annie, have gone out, though he finds the door unlocked, and takes the opportunity to take a look around the house.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good story told badly
- By Dave on 12-09-24
- The Umbrella
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
A good story told badly
Reviewed: 12-09-24
This short story is quite amusing. Unfortunately the narrator is dreadful. For some reason she gives a ludicrously overly dramatic performance when a straightforward reading would have better served the story. It’s almost unlistenable.
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Asian American Apostate
- Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University
- By: R. Scott Okamoto
- Narrated by: R. Scott Okamoto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
R. Scott Okamoto had no idea that his job as an English teacher at an evangelical Christian college meant facing bigotry as an Asian American and faux intellectualism as a teacher—and what it would mean for his own journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Secret Life of an Evangelical College
- By Dave on 11-27-23
- Asian American Apostate
- Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University
- By: R. Scott Okamoto
- Narrated by: R. Scott Okamoto
The Secret Life of an Evangelical College
Reviewed: 11-27-23
I heard Mr. Okamoto on a podcast and the stories he told about his time as a professor at an Evangelical College were both amusing and shocking. This book lived up to my expectations and surpassed them. The world of Evangelical Christians is stranger than us outsiders can ever imagine. Professor Okamoto does his best to educate his students previously unchallenged in their worldviews by homeschooling or Christian high schools. He is a compassionate soul who does his best to mentor the BiPOC & LGBTQ students in a college that disdains their very existence. This is a rich, humorous, thoughtful memoir and I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about Evangelical Christians.
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