
Don't Tell Alfred
Radlett and Montdore Trilogy Series, Book 3
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Narrated by:
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Adjoa Andoh
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By:
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Nancy Mitford
In this delightful comedy, Fanny - the quietly observant narrator of Nancy Mitford's two most famous novels - finally takes center stage.
Fanny Wincham - last seen as a young woman in The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate - has lived contentedly for years as housewife to an absent-minded Oxford don, Alfred. But her life changes overnight when her beloved Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris.
Soon she finds herself mixing with royalty and Rothschilds while battling her hysterical predecessor, Lady Leone, who refuses to leave the premises. When Fanny's tender-hearted secretary begins filling the embassy with rescued animals and her teenage sons run away from Eton and show up with a rock star in tow, things get entirely out of hand. Gleefully sending up the antics of mid-century high society, Don't Tell Alfred is classic Mitford.
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Narration could have been better
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Overacting with narration makes it unbearable
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Taking place in France, part of the novel featured characters who either had a French accent or who were pretending to know more French than they had. These passages were read employing the mix, and were difficult to follow with only audio.
I will note my ear adapts readily to most accents, so I'm not sure if it was the reading or the writing. Either way it made the second half of the book tedious, and I was rather glad it was over. I may try to catch it in print, was looking forward to hearing more stories in the lives of this character.
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