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Burning Down George Orwell's House

By: Andrew Ervin
Narrated by: Donald Corren
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A darkly comic debut novel about advertising, truth, single malt, Scottish hospitality - or lack thereof - and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Ray Welter, who was until recently a high-flying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of newspeak behind. He decamps to the isolated Scottish Isle of Jura in order to spend a few months in the cottage where George Orwell wrote most of his seminal novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray is miserable and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch.

But a few of the local islanders take a decidedly shallow view of a foreigner coming to visit in order to sort himself out, and Ray quickly finds himself having to deal with not only his own issues but also a community whose eccentricities are at times amusing and at others downright dangerous. Also the locals believe - or claim to believe - that there's a werewolf about, and against his better judgment Ray's misadventures build to the night of a traditional boozy werewolf hunt on the Isle of Jura on the summer solstice.

©2015 Andrew Ervin (P)2015 Recorded Books Dark Humour Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Small Town & Rural Highlander Werewolf Fantasy Wolf Shifter Comedy
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Sorry but had to return this before I even got to the end of the first chapter. The American narrator's attempt to do a Scottish accent was pitiful. When he tried to do the Scots attempting to mimic the American character's accent, that was the final straw.

Not great choice of narrator

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