![]() Although spanning the late 1940s to 60s, the stories of boyfriends and husbands, which must have been very racy in their day, still have a lot to say about relationships. The book itself is a wonderfully modern tale of ambition, relationships and sex in New York, fuelled in the latter part by "dolls", the red pills the characters begin to rely on. ![]() I haven't been so disappointed in a reading since Tyrion suddenly went from Yorkshire to Welsh in "a Game of Thrones". From start to finish, the book is an outrageous tour of three womens careers in the most lucrative female industry: entertainment. Most of the book sounds like it's being read for comic effect, particularly the (mercifully few) sex scenes, and halfway through it just got so annoying to hear a great book being mashed up like this. And the pronunciation of Lyon as "Lion" not Lee-on really starts to grate. ![]() She's just totally wrong for this book, although her voice is full of warmth and character, it strays into abrasive screeching and cartoonish shrieking that I just couldn't associate with the ice-cool Anne, or Neely, who is supposed to have a wonderful voice. BUT- Laverne Cox's reading of this book is just - inappropriate. It is cool, perfectly read, almost in a Mad Men way, with a softness that brought forth each character's different personalities without overly dramatising them. ![]() ![]() I bought this title after listening to the abridged Radio 4 version, which I think is read by Madeleine Potter. ![]()
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