The Choir

Name: The Choir
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Joanna Trollope
ISBN: 9781470834081

Author: Joanna Trollope

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 02/14/2014

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

In the gentle world of one of Englands beautiful old cathedral towns, crisis looms: funds are short, and the cathedral is in need of major repair. One faction of the community argues that the obvious solution is to abolish the expensive, and nowadays rather irrelevant, boys choir. But of course, there are those who disagree: the choir schools headmaster, a conscientious scholar somewhat out of his depth with his elusive, poetical wife; the cathedral organist and choirmaster, brilliant, wayward, and in love with the lead choristers married mother; the former lead chorister, now twenty-three and directionless, who haunts his old school looking for a sense of purpose; and the gentle, left-wing bishop, trying to soothe the angry protagonists. Their stories are marvelously woven into this enchanting story of modern life in old-world England.

About Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope is the number-one bestselling author of eighteen highly acclaimed contemporary novels, including The Other Family, Daughters-in-Law, and The Soldier's Wife. She was appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and was the chair of judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in London and Gloucestershire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on December 17, 2024

Joanna Trollope seems to have found herself a niche, but her work divides readers. She is highly acclaimed on the one hand, and has won awards including the "Best Romantic Novel of the Year" (in 1980 for "Parson Harding's Daughter") yet is also dismissed by others for writing so-called "aga-sagas".......more

Goodreads review by La Tonya on May 25, 2015

You have intrigue, church politics, community politics, and human emotion in the small town of Aldminster, Great Britian just outside of London, England. The cathedral is worth saving for it highlights the beauty of the town. It is the main work of the bishop, dean, and all who work for the church.......more

Goodreads review by Esdaile on November 20, 2012

The novel was thoroughly readable but for me somehow never quite escaped an aura of soap opera about it and certainly a fair dollop of sentimentality and old lace. I also felt that it was written rather too obviously in the shadow of the author's grandfather and the Barchester Chronicles; but arguab......more

Goodreads review by Marne on March 10, 2020

There was plenty to like in this book, but there wasn't enough for me to love. Trollope writes clearly and convincingly, and in some ways this reminded me of A Spanish Lover, the only other novel of Trollope's I've read. In both books, a small initial occurrence sets a very large chain of events in......more

Goodreads review by Pam on April 14, 2019

I used to like Joanna Trollope. Maybe I’ve just got older and more cynical. It felt a dated read and it was unstintingly middle class twaddle. Yes there were interesting politics in Cathedral close and a dilemma between key characters and you couldn’t help but want the titular choir to be saved , bu......more