Dunbar: King Lear Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) Audiobook (Free)

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn, go through by Henry Goodman.

‘I really do come with an empire, you understand,’ stated Dunbar. ‘Have got I ever told you the storyplot of how it had been taken from me?’

Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good time. In his dotage he paid care of the family firm to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relationships quickly soured, leaving him doubting the intelligence of previous decisions…

Now on the subject of Dunbar: King Lear Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) imprisoned within a treatment house in the Lake Region with just a demented alcoholic comedian simply because company, Dunbar starts preparation his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is usually sizzling hot on his pumps. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest girl, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so willing to divest him of his estate?

Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and gorgeous precision the agonies of family existence. Dunbar is a devastating family tale and an excoriating book for and of our situations – an study of power, money and the value of forgiveness.