![]() ![]() ![]() I found myself putting off listening so eventually decided to abandon it. I wasn't sure how much the readers, although good, added to the sense of caricature and heavy handedness and it may be better read in print. The book seemed to be an attempt to fictionalise the colonial experience in New Zealand that was neither an interesting novel nor an absorbing piece of history. It was well written but I found the characters more of a caricature or representing a point of view, intellectual stance or type of experience than real multi-faceted people, I didn't feel involved with any of them and found their accounts laboured, long-winded and tedious. However that might be, I have abandoned this after struggling for more than 8 hours with it. It may be that having read other reviews and the fact that book has won the Whitbread prize raised my expectation too high. ![]()
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