Elizabeth Day has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is The Party.
The Party
Summary
A gripping story of obsession and betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. "As the train pressed on, I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction, plotted according to a new constellation. Because, although I didn't know it yet, I was about to meet Ben and nothing would ever be the same again." Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had. But Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years. At Ben's 40th birthday party, the great and the good of British society are gathering to celebrate in a haze of champagne, drugs and glamour. Amid the hundreds of guests – the politicians, the celebrities, the old-money and newly rich – Martin once again feels that disturbing pang of not-quite-belonging. His wife, Lucy, has her reservations too. There is disquiet in the air. But Ben wouldn't do anything to damage their friendship.... Would he?
©2017 Elizabeth Day (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
L'invitation
Summary
Lutte des classes, ambition politique, désirs refoulés et violence sourde... Une œuvre originale et parfaitement construite qui allie roman noir à la tension implacable et comédie sociale mordante, quelque part entre le Monsieur Ripley de Patricia Highsmith et Le Dîner de Herman Koch, le tout porté par un humour grinçant tout britannique.
Ben Fitzmaurice est devenu le meilleur ami de Martin Gilmour le jour où, dans la cour de leur très chic école, Ben, héritier d'une prestigieuse dynastie, a pris la défense de Martin, petit boursier, fils unique d'une mère célibataire sans le sou. Depuis, Ben s'est fait un nom en politique, Martin est devenu critique d'art ; Ben a épousé la très parfaite Serena, Martin vit avec la très discrète Lucy. Et Ben est toujours le meilleur ami de Martin. Ce soir, Ben fête ses quarante ans. Tout le gratin est présent. Martin aussi. Naturellement... Le lendemain, Serena est dans le coma ; Lucy est internée. Ben est à l'hôpital ; Martin, lui, répond aux questions des policiers : que s'est-il passé durant cette soirée ? Pourquoi un tel déchaînement de violence ? Et si cette amitié en apparence parfaite cachait en réalité des sentiments bien plus troubles ?
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