Narrated By: John Heffernan
Duration: 11 hours and 24 minutes
What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim written by Jonathan Coe, read by John Heffernan.
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even though he has 74 friends on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long journey to the Shetland Isles - and a voyage into his family's past which throws up some surprising revelations.
A story for our times, Maxwell finds himself at sea in the modern world, surrounded by social networks but unable to relate properly to anyone.
Genre
Modern & contemporary fiction
Listen to a sample
As funny and as well-written as you'd expect. It is archly and artfully structured too
Cunningly plotted, extremely well-written and very, very funny