"Some books feel so suited to the audio format that they could have been written with the voice in mind. All My Precious Madness is one of those. Mark Bowles's debut novel, which won the audiobook fiction category at the inaugural British Audio awards (where, full disclosure, I was a judge), is a deliciously sweary monologue from a middle-aged malcontent. A sideways reflection on working-class identity and masculinity, the novel gives voice to Henry Nash, a man of little patience."
"Sitting in a London coffee shop and trying to write a monograph of his father, he rains judgment on the other patrons whose obnoxious phone calls he can't help but overhear. An Oxford graduate turned writer and academic, Nash lives in a Soho flat where he has been known to furtively drop eggs on passersby who disturb him with their drunken racket."
All My Precious Madness presents a bitter, comic first-person monologue by Henry Nash, a middle-aged malcontent. Nash sits in a London coffee shop attempting to write a monograph about his father while loudly judging other patrons. He is an Oxford graduate turned academic who lives in a Soho flat and has been known to drop eggs on noisy passersby. Nash rails against business jargon and city hipsters, and he recalls a working-class childhood in Bradford and struggles fitting in at university with public school-educated peers. Actor Paul Hilton’s narration captures Nash’s contempt, complexity and charisma. Available from Spiracle; 8hr 25min.
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