Blasted Things, Lesley Glaister
Blasted Things, Lesley Glaister
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Blasted Things

Author: Lesley Glaister

Narrator: Danielle Cohen

Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2024

Synopsis

After the Great War, a nurse and a damaged soldier become dangerously entangled in this “sensitive, unsettling tale” by the author of A Particular Man (The Independent). Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills… It’s 1920 and Britain is attempting to move on after World War I. Clementine, who was a nurse on the frontlines and suffered her own losses, is trying to settle back into her comfortable middle-class life as a doctor’s wife. But when she meets Vincent, a man so battered he must wear a mask to hide his scars, a perilous and magnetic attraction develops between them. As their passion erupts and takes a darker turn, it threatens to spell disaster. Will either of them ever recover from the lingering horrors of war? And can both of them walk away from their affair unscathed?

About Lesley Glaister

Lesley Glaister is a British novelist, playwright, and teacher of writing, currently working at the University of St Andrews. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Society of Authors. Her first novel, Honour Thy Father, was published in 1990 and received both a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award. Glaister became known for her darkly humorous works and has been dubbed the Queen of Domestic Gothic. Glaister was named Yorkshire Author of the Year in 1998 for her novel Easy Peasy, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award in 1998. Now You See Me was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2002. Glaister lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband, author Andrew Greig.

About Danielle Cohen

Danielle Cohen is an award-winning audiobook narrator who grew up reading anything and everything aloud. At the age of eight, she dreamed of being a newsreader or a stand-up comedian. When not narrating audiobooks, she can be found running with friends, playing board games with her husband and teenage daughters, or baking cake. She currently resides in Vermont.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 09, 2020

On finishing a Lesley Glaister novel, I’m always surprised that she’s not usually spoken of in the same breath as some of our foremost British novelists. Not only can she plot a gripping story but her choice of language is always so apt, her characters so real and her narrative so memorable. In ‘Blas......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on May 20, 2020

A delightfully well-plotted and beautifully written novel! Clementina and Vince have very little in common except wounds from their time serving as nurse and soldier on the front World War I, some wounds visible and some not. The story follows their chance meeting after the war (in 1920) and the dram......more

Goodreads review by Sam on May 19, 2020

Read all of Lesley Glaisters novel, loved them all, everyone so different. This one is about the effects of WWI on different people. The horrors of hospitals on the front line, amputations, brief romances, death and despair. How can people make a life after their experiences. Two such people are Cleme......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on September 27, 2020

Blasted Things is another fabulous Lesley Glaister novel. She just keeps getting better and better - and every book is different and differently wonderful. Others have outlined the story of Clem and Dennis, Powell and Vincent, not to mention Harri and Gwen and all the other beautifully delineated cha......more

Goodreads review by Grady on March 08, 2021

War imprints and indelible marks– a fascinating new novel British author, poet, playwright Lesley Glaister is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews as well as a writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has pub......more

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