The Tiger In the Well - Philip Pullman

Written by Philip Pullman
Read by Anton Lesser
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Sally Lockhart Mystery Series, Book 3
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: February 22, 2005
Duration: 13:08:48

Sally Lockhart, trying to put her troubled past behind her after her fiancé’s death, has settled into a comfortable life with her daughter, Harriet, her career, and her London friends. But her world comes crashing down around her when a complete stranger claims to be both her husband and Harriet’s father, casting doubt on her spotless reputation. Seeking the answers to this terrible dilemma, Sally realizes with growing horror that there is a guiding hand behind all this deceit; someone who hates her so passionately that he has devoted years to bringing about her ruin. She has no choice but to escape with her child into the crime-ridden slums of London’s East End. Suddenly it isn’t only Sally’s reputation that is in danger

Narrator Anton Lesser shows his mastery of voices by serving up all the accents and personalities of the East End. In one notable scene, an argument breaks out at a meeting of Socialists with Russian, Yiddish, and Polish backgrounds. Anton Lesser’s rapid-fire switches from character to character sound like the work of a whole cast of narrators but are, in fact, the work of one absolutely stellar one.