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Caledonian Road

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Caledonian Road

Auteur(s): Andrew O'Hagan
Narrateur(s): Michael Abubakar
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Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award • Finalist for the 2024 Orwell Political Fiction Book Prize • Sunday Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Times, The Guardian, Time, The Observer, and Financial Times • Named a Best Book to Read in 2024 by The Independent and Harper’s Bazaar • One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024 • One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2024

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising—and declining—fortunes.

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much.

He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune. Riding on the high of a best-selling biography of Vermeer and fielding more inquiries and requests than he has the time to pursue, Campbell has nevertheless still not managed to shake the question of money. The fact of his quiet loan from an old friend now embroiled in scandal makes the ever-present worry feel even more pressing. His unflappable agent, Atticus; his steadfast wife, Elizabeth; his sister, Moira, crusading parliamentarian for the poor; his well-off, self-absorbed adult children, Angus and Kenzie; and all the outward trappings of success can’t conceal that something in his life is off.

As Campbell becomes increasingly entangled with a brilliant student, convention-smashing and working class, like he used to be, he feels he’s been given a second chance to embrace the changes in society that frighten him, even as he sees trouble brewing for his family and friends. Campbell’s personal quest takes him down darker roads than he could have imagined, and all his worlds—the art scene and academia, fashion and the English aristocracy, journalism and the inter-net—collide in spectacular fashion, culminating in one shocking night on Caledonian Road. Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Littérature et fiction
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Wonderful sprawling novel documenting the many current challenges and problems of living in the UK. As so often the class system and the rich poor divide are front and centre. Immigration with people smuggling, internet crime/scams, social media, rotten politics and corrupt politicians, celebrity culture, drugs, gangs, property un affordability… they’re all here plus more. The period of the pandemic spans some of the novel but as a background not a main theme. I was fortunate to have a book copy available as getting your head around the characters at the beginning is hard. The written work has a nice who’s who in the frontispiece. The narrator is excellent with a huge range of voices and a particularly fine Multicultural London English accent.

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Very clever in its conception and execution. A great read all the wayto the end of the Road. Enjoy!

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