Lullaby Beach
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Lullaby Beach
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Narrated by:
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Antonia Beamish
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By:
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Stella Duffy
About this listen
No more days, no more times, no more tides. No more secrets.
A compelling novel about family secrets and the legacy of trauma, set against the changing fortunes of an English seaside town, from award-winning writer Stella Duffy.
When Lucy discovers the body of her great aunt Kitty, with a puzzling note and empty pill bottles by her bed, she can't believe that the formidable woman who held her family together is gone - or understand why she has taken her own life.
Lucy is determined to decipher Kitty's final message. What she finds will overturn everything she thought she knew about her family.
Lullaby Beach takes the listener on a journey through three generations of a complicated, close-knit clan whose joys and misfortunes track many of the most pressing conflicts and concerns of post-war Britain, from the promise and hypocrisies of 1950s London to the political divides and risky freedoms of the present day.
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Critic reviews
"Duffy is a fearless writer.... A portrait of sisterhood in the wider sense - one that's as powerful and gritty as it is wise and celebratory." (Daily Mail)
"Lullaby Beach explores familial legacy, generational secrets and the effects of long-lasting trauma with a distinct tenderness." (New Statesman)
"A writer who never lets you down." (Ali Smith)
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The two sides are drawn: the baddies, who are the men who care about money and are property developers, personifications, it seems, of the political right. On the other side are the women, who are the 'goodies', who have little personal agency and whose lives are controlled by bad men, and the occasional rare but good man who is of course on a zero hour contract. It will come as no surprise that race issues are also briefly brought into the book. So are LGBT issues and it's a relief to find that the lesbian relationship is accepted by all and not presented as yet one more political struggle.
While it might be understandable that the central character was unable to assert herself due to the time when she was born, I can see no good reason why the younger generations couldn't show more gumption and there was altogether too much crying for me.
Although the story was well told, I found it dreary and depressing and it was an effort to keep going with the book. I did keep going to the end. I can't honestly say I learned anything.
Well told but rather dreary
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