More Than You Can Say, Paul Torday
More Than You Can Say, Paul Torday
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More Than You Can Say

Author: Paul Torday

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2011

Synopsis

Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt returns home to his girlfriend with very little of a plan in mind. Finding it difficult to settle into civilian life, he turns to drink and gambling - and is challenged to a bet he cannot resist. All he has to do is walk from London to Oxford in under twelve hours.

But what starts as a harmless venture turns into something altogether different when Richard recklessly accepts an unusual request from a stranger ...

Read by Jonathan Keeble

(p) 2011 Orion Publishing Group

About Paul Torday

Paul Torday burst on to the literary scene in 2007 with his first novel, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, an immediate international bestseller that has been translated into 28 languages and has been made into a film starring Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Blunt. His subsequent novels, THE IRRESISTIBLE INHERITANCE OF WILBERFORCE, THE GIRL ON THE LANDING, THE HOPELESS LIFE OF CHARLIE SUMMERS, MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY, THE LEGACY OF HARTLEPOOL HALL and LIGHT SHINING IN THE FOREST, were all published to great critical acclaim. He was married with two sons by a previous marriage, had two stepsons, and lived close to the River North Tyne. He died at home in December 2013.

About Jonathan Keeble

Jonathan combines his audio work with a busy theatre and TV career. He is very proud to have appeared more times (11) at Manchester's prestigious Royal Exchange Theatre than any one else of his age. He has featured in over 500 radio plays for the BBC appearing in everything from Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to Dr Who and is also the evil Owen in The Archers. Much in demand for his voicework, this ranges from playing Sir Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral to The Angel of Death in the film Hellboy 2, with stops at all points in between. An award-winning reader, Jonathan has recorded over 100 audiobooks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lance on March 26, 2017

The first part of this story is totally ridiculous and my thoughts were that none of this could possibly ever happen. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes more and more plausible, until, eventually, I began to think that these events could really, actually happen. That is what I would call very......more

Goodreads review by Amesily on April 03, 2016

It's more meaningful than I expected at first. Maybe we don't have the ability to heal the scars we got, or even let others know how painful we are. We still can try to be normal. Try to find the way to be happiness.......more

Goodreads review by Ian on April 30, 2012

Paul Torday excels at getting inside the head of weak men. This protagonist is weak because he was emotionally crippled by serving in Iraq and Afganistan. He can certainly 'take care of himself' as the saying goes, but he cannot manage his life for toffee. As usual, there is a real off-the-wall aspe......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on August 04, 2018

Paul Torday called his work an adventure story, so I figured it might be a good read to join me on my own adventure, a train journey through Italy (Milan, Rome and Amalfi Coast). I bought the book in 2015 in a little store near Madame Tussauds in London, partly because of the cover and partly because......more

Goodreads review by Linden on April 18, 2019

A novel of improbabilities as well as logical outcomes, Torday's book concerns a veteran from the wars in the Middle East who now attempts to reclaim his former life in the UK and finds himself in a surreal situation. The idealistic John Gaunt who entered the service with lofty goals had become disi......more

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Torday has an extraordinary gift for making apparent "normality" look sinister and strange THE TIMES

Funny, ambitious, multi-layered and quirkily imaginative THE SCOTSMAN

MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY is gripping. Torday's simple prose belies an elegantly woven story, full of concepts that you can't help but dwell upon NEWS OF THE WORLD

A thrilling read PRIMA

A dark thriller scenario, where unlikely events follow hot on the heels of each other to create a hectic narrative METRO

Torday's prose whips along in this involving, enjoyable novel VOGUE

There are good reasons why Torday has found success, as this novel shows. There's real substance to the characterisation...a keenness to incorporate the dark and the serious...and to engage with contemporary politics and issues. Above all, there's his desire to entertain and to keep his readers turning those pages GUARDIAN

Written with confidence and dry humour, it's engaging and funny BIG ISSUE

In MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY, Torday darkens things...dealing with subject matters such as terrorism, war and post-traumatic stress disorder INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Thought-provoking and hugely entertaining GOOD BOOK GUIDE

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