Audiobook12 hours
Mischief
Written by Fay Weldon
Narrated by Julia Franklin
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
About this audiobook
Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon's inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words, selecting and introducing her favourite short stories from across her career as one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists.
Author
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include ‘The Life and Loves of a She-Devil’, ‘Puffball’, ‘Big Women’ and ‘Rhode Island Blues’. She has also published her autobiography ‘Auto da Fay’. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed ‘She May Not Leave’. She lives in Dorset.
Related to Mischief
Related audiobooks
Before the War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5After the Peace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeath of a She Devil Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Virgin in the Rose Bower: The Mysteries of Winterthurn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Longhand (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mr Mac and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Peculiar Ground: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Journey to Bruges Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Lighting Up Time: A short story for the winter solstice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Women's Short Stories Volume 1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Victorian Women Writers Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Touchy Subjects Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moo Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Seductive Lady Vanessa of Manhattanshire Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Divorcing Jack Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sophy Mason Comes Back Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twice Told Tales Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mr. Tallent's Ghost Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Little Dinner At Timmin's Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lady Audley's Secret Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Well-Beloved Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeath At Crane's Court Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Woman in White Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gravement Endommagé Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Am Heathcliff: Stories Inspired by Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The English American Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWrecker Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
General Fiction For You
A Court of Thorns and Roses Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Court of Mist and Fury Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/511/22/63: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Duke and I Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hunger Games Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Court of Wings and Ruin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If He Had Been with Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Two Towers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Frost and Starlight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Return of the King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It Ends with Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Omens: A Full Cast Production Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Name of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Mischief
Rating: 3.660550423853211 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
218 ratings6 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5suspense, murder, artifact, romance, mystery, historical-novel, reread, social-issues Another one from the prolific Quick that I have reread in print and own in audio.Yes, it is romantic suspense, has erotica, and the snarks sneak up on you. Publisher's blurb suggests the plot, but there is more fun to it, and the characters do remind me of a few folks that I have worked with. It is a lightweight, fun read with a mere hint of supernatural and a side order of social issues still present today.Can't go wrong with Barbara Rosenblatt as the audio performer.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is another of Amanda Quick's fairly formulaic Regency (assumption - it's not stated) romances. Matthias, Lord Colchester, is a Regency version of Lord Caernarvon - interested in discovering the secrets of a lost civilisation, so rolls up his sleeves and in the company of Rutledge, discovers said civilisation. The lost island is entirely made up, Zamar being sort of a rich, exotic, island. It has two chief gods, a Lady god of the day and the male god of the night. And, in case we hadn't got the point, the lady and gentleman in question are frequently linked to their respective god by analogy. It all gets rather tedious. That's not to say that, as a romance, it isn't a good fun read - it's the packing that is mildly annoyiong. Everything has to be linked to a Zamarian something or other (even his methods of lovemaking). The two leads are amusing enough, Imogen is a bluestocking with little in the way of social graces and a ruined reputation, Matthias has a reputation for being cold-blooded and with no scruples. As ever, not exactly the case and the sparring between them is fun to read. There's the requisite amount of peril and some hairbrained scheme to uncover a murder that's 3 years old, but it all ties up neatly in to a fun, frivolous but faintly annoying parcel.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hmmmm, let me see how many times I can repeat the word Zamar? Oh just about a million times according to Amanda Quick. Other than that I liked the characters and the story itself.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is my first romance novel. I remember it fondly - I read it back, maybe six years ago, and had to read it all over again. I always associated romance with Harlequin and that stuff my mother would tell me as a kid, "You can read anything you want, just not in that section until you're older." Looking back, I'm surprised I listened...Regardless, the book itself I enjoyed immensely. It circles around "Immodest" Imogen Waterstone and "Cold-Blooded" Colchester. Imogen is on a hunt for the real reason her good friend died, and what better way than to enter society again? After all, that's where all the Lords and Ladies are normally.So she comes up with this fantastic way of asking Colchester to help, based on a debt he owed to her Uncle...which her Uncle left to Imogen in his will. He'll pretend to pursue her because she supposedly owns the map to an ancient Zamarian (yes, made up) artifact that they're both interested in, being lovers of that ancient culture. It helps bind them together throughout the four hundred or so pages.I think the part that made me like the novel so much more is the fact that during this conversation, Imogen gets it into her head that "Cold-Blooded" Colchester suffers from weak nerves. The way the author plays on that throughout the rest of the novel is good for some laughter.All in all, I really enjoyed reading this. The characters made me smile, the situations were just ridiculous at some points (in a good way), and there's even a touch of mystery in it to keep me guessing. Would (and have) read it again anytime.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5listened to abridged audio cassette- would like to read more of this intelligent woman character; learned much about early anthropolgy , etc.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While a fun installment in her slightly alternative universe with the finding of a mysterious island called Zamar, which has captivated the historical period (which feels more victorian than regency), this somehow just didn't quite do it for me. I think that the pacing was a little off for me and I really didn't feel a sense of menace from the major bad character. Imogen Waterstone has a plan to get her revenge on Vanneck, a man who married a friend and then broke her heart. Who also was involved in getting Imogen in disgrace. She turns to Matthias Marshall the Earl of Colchester for help and finds herself more involved than maybe she should.It's fun, light and interesting but the characters never really came to life for me. Still it's a good one to borrow.