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  • Mimi's Ghost

  • A Novel
  • By: Tim Parks
  • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
  • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Mimi's Ghost

By: Tim Parks
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Summary

The second Duckworth novel is "a wild and wacky thriller that's like sharing a roller-coaster ride with a suave maniac." (Publishers Weekly review).

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Only now, living in Verona and married to Mimi's sister, does he appreciate how much he misses her and how blindly he has stumbled into a trap of fate. Struggling to adjust to his good fortune, with a lavish house and cushy job, our unsavory hero finds that his new success is rife with tribulation: not least his pushy bride's staggering sexual appetite and his nosy brother-in-law's meddling questions. So when he visits Mimi's grave and her charming photograph winks at him, he's ready for her advice.

Mimi seems to be suggesting a path to Christian redemption: he will help the poor African immigrants of Verona. But is his sudden altruism genuine or a cover for further malfeasance? And why, despite his apparent sincerity, are those who get in his charitable way so prone to "accidents?" The dark and funny sequel to Cara Massimina, Mimi's Ghost is the ultimate comedy of self-justification.

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Great writing

excellence storytelling brilliantly read.funny and as dark as night.tim parkes has created a wonderful character in mauri

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I love this whole series by Tim Parks. Someone really should have advised the narrator how to pronounce the name of the singer Sade! Narrator otherwise good. What's with the illustrations for this and the first book Cara Massimina ? The sisters are Italian and not blonde with blue eyes!!!
I would recommend the 3rd book also. Funny, moving trilogy that races along.

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Beautiful narration. Makes one feel that one is in Verona, listening to people conversing! Well done

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