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Imogen

By: Jilly Cooper
Narrated by: Rebecca Courtney
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As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered real life on the Riviera. 

Her holiday with tennis ace Nicky and the whole glamorous coterie of journalist, playboy, photographer was a revelation. But the path of a jet-set virgin in that lovely wicked world was a hard one. Imogen began to wonder if virtue really was its own reward....

©1978 Jilly Cooper (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction Funny
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So I always feel that we have to approach Jilly Cooper's romances in the same way that we would, say, Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, as dispatches from a different time when sexual politics and the treatment of women in society were very different. I listen to Jilly Cooper's books from time to time from nostalgia as I read them voraciously when they came out, but the rampant chauvinism is totally cringeworthy in today's more enlightened "woke" age, not to mention reminding us what life was like post pill but pre-AIDS. WASP-male world indeed. There's quite a lot of clunky terminology, even more clunky behaviour but the most clunks came from the narrator. Did she not read the book through at all before she recorded it? There was so much mispronounciation that what started as making me giggle ended in making me fume with irritation at the sheer unprofessionalism of it all. Did nobody else at the publishers listen to the recordings either? Apart from that, the narration was just okay aside, again, from her Irish accent which lived for most of the time on Merseyside (shame the "hero" was supposed to be Irish) and when one of the French characters was supposed to speak in a Yorkshire accent I thought she was going to do her epiglottis a mischief. So, lots of problems, but Jilly Cooper, along with Jackie Collins, invented the genre of the chick-lit bonkbuster and certainly writes a great story. I was immediately transported back to the early 1970s, the sights, the smells and the sexism. If you can see past that, and some words which may cause offence, then 10/10 for the story, 3/10 for the narration

Narrated by Mrs Malaprop

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Lovely to be reminded of this old ‘classic’ - though be prepared for some VERY dated and dodgy attitudes - sexism etc
However experience let down by some very poor and repeated mispronunciations throughout the narration - feels like there’s no production process. Shame.

Great nostalgia but grating narration

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This story is an old friend but the terrible accents and mispronounced words were annoying.

Fun and light hearted.

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Amazing book - Ive always adored this story it’s my favourite alongside Harriet - however the narrator was not on point and it was a bit frustrating - the biggest clanger was when Matt “spoke in fluent french” “Formidable!” in french it is NOT pronounced the same as English forMIDable good grief grrrr lol it’s for-mee-dabbler - seriously who doesn’t know that? The story is still brilliant though so don’t let the narrator put you off xxxx

Wonderful (narrator needed guidance)

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Does no one check how words are pronounced after recording?
Eg bared its teeth ...said beared not Barr.. ed
curate...cure it & not as in curating a museum.
Monkeys in Gib..Gibraltar not gibbon. Soft g.
Imo...short for Imogen...not eye mo
I won't listen to this narrator again.

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