In the Company of Others: A Father Tim Novel (Unabridged) In the Company of Others: A Father Tim Novel (Unabridged)

In the Company of Others: A Father Tim Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 4.4 • 17 Ratings
    • $16.99

    • $16.99

Publisher Description

Follow Father Tim and Cynthia on their journey to research his Kavanagh ancestry in the Irish countryside.
 
Vacation—the very word has been foreign to Episcopal priest Tim Kavanagh. Now retired from tending his flock in the village of Mitford, he is making good on a promise to show his wife, Cynthia, the charming land of his Irish ancestors. But after arriving at a Lough Arrow fishing lodge in the midst of a torrential downpour, the charm disappears.

They find their holiday upended by an intruder, a treasured painting is stolen from the lodge, and a family conflict dating back nearly a century turns even more bitter. As three generations struggle to find deliverance from the crucifying power of secrets, Tim and Cynthia stumble upon a faded journal that might just explain the crime—and offer a chance at redemption.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
ES
Erik Singer
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13:19
hr min
RELEASED
2010
October 19
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
723
MB

Customer Reviews

you crossed the line ,

Difficult to follow

This book would have been better served to have had a storyteller or gifted voice narrator. The Narrator is inconsistent with character dialect so it is confusing in whom he is trying to be. He also gives an Irish accent part of the time with non Irish characters and does not distinguish well between character voices.

But also, it is difficult to tell if the other stories are tripping one up, too. I am interested in Mitford and the father and Cynthia etc but not so much in the journal story. Having come this far in the Mitford Series, there are a lot of backstories to remember. I wonder if maybe bringing in completely unrelated characters from a 100+ year old journal was a bit too much. At times I can’t distinguish which story they are in and the narration sure doesn’t help.

In the previous reviews I have seen others suggest Ms Karon remaster the recording. I have liked all previous narrators until this one. My belief is in order to stay true to her readers, this book needs to come off until it is newly produced with one of the previous or equal narrators as it adds to the confusion of one firmly committed to the series and that is almost a betrayal to readers. It’s hard to rate the book because we are left with the question, was it the story writing or the narration that was so bad - the narration definitely was and it’s hard to get past that to adequately review the book. For now, I couldn’t recommend the book. With a new and gifted narrator - as this book will definitely need - probably and definitely to committed series readers but without adequate and proper narration, as it currently stands, I would not.

Should the Narrator read this, he was clearly given a very difficult job for any narrator and very fairly, has a very good voice, just not for complicated character change. It doesn’t take from his skill in talent. This just isn’t the correct area to express his gifts.

And should the writer, consider, at times, weaving in and not just out. Your series readers, or at least this one, welcome out but want not at the expense of the familiar. I am more interested in how Emma is getting along and just how bad or promising is Lou Boyd’s diagnosis. How old are Puny’s twins now, etc, etc. The Ireland story would be an adventure but the tying in of the journal… at least for this reader, was like asking me to read another story while already immersed in this one. If the book was a full stand alone, maybe, but for me, it’s too much reaching out and pulling in to do justice to the Mitford characters and and the story that began centered around a small Episcopalian church and it’s father. The story of travel isn’t a bad one, just the journal story being so much a part or apart. The living people of other lands is one thing but their dead ancestors? Too much. I am ready to go home to Mitford.

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