The Birthday Boys - Beryl Bainbridge

Category: Other
Language: English
Keywords: Historical Suspense Thriller

Written by Beryl Bainbridge
Read by Simon Mattacks
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

A brilliantly realised evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

The Birthday Boys tells the story of Scott’s doomed expedition through the voices of five men on the voyage. As Scott, Petty Officer Taff Evans, ship’s doctor Edward Wilson, Lieutenant Henry Bowers and Captain Lawrence Oates step forward for their place in the narrative, the reader is gripped by the characters themselves alongside the vividly evoked period.