Harriet Said…

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Harriet Said…

By: Beryl Bainbridge

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

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A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, chief architect of all their past mischief. She roams listlessly along the shoreline and the woods still pitted with wartime trenches, and encounters ‘the Tsar’ – almost old, unhappily married, both dangerously fascinating and repulsive.

Pretty, malevolent Harriet finally arrives – and over the course of the long holidays draws her friend into a scheme to beguile then humiliate the Tsar, with disastrous, shocking consequences.

Beryl BainbridgePenelope RawlinsSoundings

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This one feels very 1970’s. An unwholesome story which sets out to explore the troubling relationship between two adolescent girls, older men and the adult world in general. It’s very odd and rather uncomfortable to listen to today. The story is told from the point of view of the girls and of one in particular. Good and evil, maturity and innocence, and power in relationships all come under scrutiny. The ending is predictable given the period in which the novel first appeared. I don’t think I can recommend it.

A very odd tale

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