Three Brothers, Peter Ackroyd
Three Brothers, Peter Ackroyd
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Three Brothers

Author: Peter Ackroyd

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2014


Synopsis

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world - a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords, of newspaper magnates, backbiters, and petty thieves. From bustling, cut-throat Fleet Street to hallowed London publishing houses, from the wealth and corruption of Chelsea to the smoky shadows of Limehouse and Hackney, this is an exploration of the city, peering down its streets, riding on its underground, and drinking in its pubs and clubs.

About Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet, and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River, and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin, and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roger on March 01, 2015

I have long suspected that some writers receive critical praise based on their reputation rather than the merits of a particular work. After reading 'Three Brothers', I am more than ever convinced that that is the case. Its author, Peter Ackroyd, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and ha......more

Goodreads review by Roger on June 22, 2016

Three Brothers, Three Decades, One Disappointment He doesn't actually begin "Once upon a time," but Peter Ackroyd captures the fabulist tone perfectly in the opening of his new novel: In the London borough of Camden, in the middle of the last century, there lived three brothers; they were three you......more

Goodreads review by t on December 21, 2024

i love curious coincidences, mysterious disappearing nuns and atmospheric London corruption as much as the next man, but i was a but disappointed by this novels’ ending (a sadly trite attempt to pull all its strings together into a neat knot) and kinda underdeveloped familial feelings. Sparkler was......more

Goodreads review by Sian on July 24, 2020

This is an amazing book that has an amazing atmosphere where you have a strong sense both the physical and historical setting. All characters and plot is intertwined through the three brothers. And the story itself is full of twisty and suspenseful events in the realm of business, politics, blackmai......more

Goodreads review by Laurel-Rain on February 03, 2014

Their lives began in the place that came to define them: Born in Camden Town, in London, in a council estate, in the Mid-Twentieth Century. "Three Brothers: A Novel" tells the tale of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, born one year apart on the same date (May 8); their distant and distracted father is s......more