The Street, Bernardine Bishop
The Street, Bernardine Bishop
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The Street

Author: Bernardine Bishop

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2016

Synopsis

There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . . In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor finds real purpose, a woman starved of love discovers it in an unexpected place and a beloved cat achieves immortality.

About Bernardine Bishop

The great-granddaughter of the poet Alice Meynell, Bernardine Bishop was the youngest witness in the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960. After writing two early novels, she taught in a London comprehensive school for ten years and then had a distinguished career as a psychotherapist, during which she brought up her two sons. Cancer forced her retirement in 2010 and she returned to her first love, fiction. Bernardine Bishop lived in London with her husband, until her death in July 2013.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Reindert

5 Stars for the specialty and simplicity of this book. Bishop manages to put down a story which one would think is rather dull when told what it is about. However, through it's simplcity and pureness, it is utmost touching. Although characters aren't lengthily described at all, you get to know them......more

Goodreads review by Nevena

A small street, with its few houses and the plain lives of their inhabitants. A snapshot in time. Nothing much to read if you are looking for a plot. Plenty to uncover if you are interested in humans in their usual conditions.......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

A nice story of a typical street we all live on but I did not like the abrupt ending.......more

Goodreads review by Igenlode

This is very much a 'slice of life' book; looking back over it I'm reminded of a neThe Heart of Londonwspaper columnist's regular updates on her quirky local acquaintances. There are a lot of little dramas- children fantasise about a mysterious neighbour who never leaves her room, a married couple w......more

Quotes

Graceful and haunting Sunday Mirror

Lovely, surprising... filled with life and optimism and a wicked sense of comedy... deeply satisfying. The Times

Unexpected and exciting Daily Mail

She excels in excavating single moments to powerfully show the profound in the prosaic. Observer, Paperback of the Week

The Street is a hugely enjoyable little book that is just a joy. Irish Examiner

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