Queens' Play
The Lymond Chronicles, Book 2
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Lu par :
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David Monteath
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Dorothy Dunnett
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Queen's Play by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath.
It is 1548 and seven-year-old Mary Queen of Scots, betrothed to her cousin the Dauphin, heir to the French throne, has been dispatched to France. But far from home and vulnerable, surrounded by the double-dealing and debauchery of a dangerous and unpredictable court, she suffers a series of 'accidents'.
Her mother, Scotland's Queen Dowager, orders Francis Crawford of Lymond to protect Mary, believing that at the very heart of Henri II's glittering, decadent court is an assassin hired to kill the infant monarch.
Lymond must secretly hunt down this individual before he himself is exposed . . .
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The problem really stood out in Queens' Play, as his French is so appalling, it's not only embarrassing, but unintelligible. As the book is set in France and almost entirely supposed to render French, with many sentences and words in French, that is a serious handicap. I don't understand why he didn't have coaching for this. Even words that are pronounced the same way in English and French, like Angevin, he mispronounces. Nobody expects perfection, but a decent French pronunciation and understanding are basic requirements for a book where there's so much French.
That's a huge pity, because there is really no-one like David Monteath to render the breathtaking action set-pieces of Lymond's adventurous life, as well as the wit of the Chronicles. His deadpan delivery is wonderful and his pacing just right.
It's an audiobook worth listening to because of its many qualities, but it might, as it did me, give you a serious case of earache.
Stunning book, problematic narration
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