Friends and Heroes Audiobook (Unabridged)

" I'm probably doing this a massive injustice but, after 100 pages it still had not gripped my attention. The pace is funereal, and the two central characters...well you keep asking why the hell they married each other, since they hardly knew each other and have little in common. I'm not going to persevere with it. Life's too short! "

" Atmospheric, great on character. Guy is so annoying you want to scream but seen through the eyes of Harriet, his young inexperienced but not naive wife we can enjoy him. Really good on build up to second world war in Eastern Europe. Tension and denial. Treatment of Jews. Arrogance. I will definitely read the second book in the trilogy. "

" I couldn't put it down. It's beautifully written, funny and moving. It's well worth reading. "

" A read this massive tome straight through, I simply could not put it down. Wonderful story about WWII in a part of Eastern Europe we don't read much about in English language war literature. "

" You have to like this kind of writing and if you do, this IS a wonderful package...but I do not have the patience for this particular British thing as it turns out. I did eventually wander through ONE of the Dance to the Music of Time sections/books and should have know better. Alas. "

" The only book I have read THREE times in 30 years and hope to do so again. Wonderful. "

" Interesting to read of the life of ex-pats in Rumania and Greece in the first couple of years of the Second World War. Also of an English teacher at that time and those places. The profession seems as full of idiots and charlatans as ever. The book is well-written and characters life-like "

" Really couldn't see the point of this book "

" nothing brilliant, but somehow very likeable "

" This is one of those stories that are made more suspenseful because you are aware of what is to come. The spring in the suspense is created by this unshared knowledge. A device described by Hitchcock in his "bomb under the table" anecdote. "

" three books about a British couple living in the Balkans during WWII "

" looks good so far. better than the TV version. "

" I read this book about 30 years ago. I am finding it a much better read with all those years of living to now draw upon. "

" Hooked me from the outset. Beautifully written. "

" A must read! It was so good and so long...my favorite combo in a book. "

" The third book of The Balkan Trilogy. "

" A wonderful last novel of the first trilogy. The writing was consistent throughout. I felt like I was living with the characters in their world. I can't wait to read The Levant Trilogy which follows the same characters in Cairo near the end of WW11. "