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Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

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Dec 29, 2021 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, read-in-2021, vic-lit, british, 60-before-60

Our Mutual Friend is the last complete work by Dickens, and the fifth of his books that I have read. I had some difficulty settling into this story, frequently feeling slightly lost, and forgetting who the characters were. I didn't see any relation between them until I was in at least Part 2. However, Dickens wit, satire and ability to be wickedly funny while heavily criticizing the world he lived in, kept me reading, and in the end I found the book smart, intriguing, and entertaining. As always ...more

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Nov 06, 2009 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, audio-books, classics, hf-19th-century-europe, read-2009, 3ms

Available at BBC Radio 4.

Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic novel.

A father and daughter on the Thames at night, and tied to their boat a lifeless shape bobs in the water.

Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard
Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts
John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp
Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy
Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis
Nicodemus Boffin ...... Jason Watkins
Mrs Boffin ...... Pauline Quirke
Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox
Ma Wilf ...more

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