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An Honest Man
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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An Honest Man
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Publisher's Summary
The new novel from the award-winning writer Ben Fergusson, author of The Spring of Kasper Meier and The Other Hoffmann Sister.
In West Berlin in 1989, 18-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden summer with his three best friends. They spend their days swimming, smoking and daydreaming about the future, oblivious to the storm gathering on the other side of the Berlin Wall. But an unsettling discovery about his family and a meeting with the mysterious Oz shatters everything Ralf thought he knew about love and loyalty. And as old Cold War tensions begin to tear his life apart, he finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, forced to make impossible choices about his country, his family and his heart.
Critic Reviews
"The divided Berlin of the Cold War era is brilliantly resurrected on the cusp of momentous change in Ben Fergusson's An Honest Man...the novel movingly recounts Ralf's painful discoveries about love and loyalty." (Sunday Times)
"During the hot summer of 1989, a group of friends mooch about, fall in love, swim and party. All perfectly normal - except this is West Berlin which is still divided by the Wall and awash with spies and paranoia.... The author won awards for his debut, The Spring of Kasper Meier. This is equally atmospheric and thought-provoking." (Daily Mail)
"The stunning, powerful and addictive new novel by the prize-winning author of The Spring of Kasper Meier...." (Attitude Magazine)
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- michele taylor
- 01-05-2023
Great Read
An intriguing & atmospheric book set at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A wonderful gay coming of age love story.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-01-2023
An excellence
I loved this story.
So wonderful gay love is stitched into incredible German history. A feast of characters and consequences
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- Anonymous User
- 02-02-2023
Intrigue mystery and love
Interesting weaving of fact and fiction involving first love in Berlin during the time of the Stasi. Excellent writing.
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- Chris Hardwicke
- 27-10-2024
Great narration.
Loved the book and thought I had the plot sorted - but not so! Great characters and a story well told.
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