Ending Up cover art

Ending Up

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Ending Up

By: Kingsley Amis
Narrated by: Fergus Craig
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

At Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner....

Told with Amis' piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.

©1974 Kingsley Amis (P)2020 Penguin Audio Classics Dark Humour Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Comedy Funny

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Bagthorpe Saga: Absolute Zero (Collins Modern Classics) cover art
Mums on the Run cover art
The Stratton Story cover art
The Frenchman and the Lady cover art
The Smoking Diaries cover art
The Four Last Things cover art
The Late Breakfasters cover art
Staying On cover art
The Belting Inheritance cover art
Paradise Postponed cover art
The Wildflower Path cover art
A Man Lay Dead cover art
The Lemon Table cover art
Bleeding Heart Square cover art
Cold Hand in Mine cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
I actually came to really like the narration of this swift brilliant book. There is some slight, and I mean slight, pausing for some words but the tone is perfect throughout and the well timed humour delivered brilliantly.

Hilarious and well read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Good story ruined by inadequate, halting narration with no ear for emphasis and appalling failures of pronunciation. Cheap voice caricatures rather than characterisations.

Shocking lack if preparation with faltering failures of emphasis.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The reading here is strangely hesitant, insecure and always on the edge of stumbling over itself, as if the narrator were sight reading something he doesn’t quite understand. It’s all very odd, and makes for an uninvolving read through one of Kingsley Amis’ best books.

Wonderful book, but...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.