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The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington
Narrated by: Siân Phillips
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Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington's novel is an exhilarating journey brimming with laugh-out-loud humor and absurd lunacy.

©1976 Leonora Carrington (P)2017 Naxos AudioBooks Witty
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Not sure what I expected but it is an interesting read. Very female led which is great, can be a bit confusing towards the end. Would love to hear other people's views and analyses of this book.

Very different, magical in a strange way.

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A quirky character driven story. I felt it didn’t meet my expectations that were made from what other people told me of it. I liked it but it wasn’t very memorable but it does have a strange ending. In my opinion, this book is a marmite book you will either love it or hate it. There is no middle ground with this one I’m afraid.

An okay read...

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The great feminist classic, gloriously irreverent, screamingly funny and superbly read by Sian Phillips. Life is not complete without reading this novel.

Sublime

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It feels quite dated. A hippy era book. The mystic, spiritually seems a little contrived. It didn’t make laugh either, but humour is an individual taste.

Not for me

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It started well but then deteriorated into balmy rambling. Don’t waste your time listening to it.

Silly rubbish

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I was led to believe this was a different take on Alice in Wonderland. The start is interesting and we’ll written but it quickly begins to be a chore to listen.
This is despite it only being 7 hours long. The author clearly completely runs out of ideas and I had to force myself to the end hoping something good happened- it did not.
Save yourself the credit.

Fell apart

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by the end i was just going by inertia, nothing in this book "spoke to me" - very well written, but the story did not interest me

boring

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