{"product_id":"9780008529727_testimonies-the-intense-and-evocative-unmissable-first-adult-literary-novel-by-the-world-famous-master-of-nautical-historical-adventure-fiction","title":"Testimonies: The intense and evocative unmissable first adult literary novel by the world-famous master of nautical historical adventure fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the first time on audio, the deeply personal and ingenious first novel written under Patrick O’Brian’s own name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHREE BEAR WITNESS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don who has given up his teaching post and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley, falls in love with Bronwen Vaughan, the wife of a young farmer who is his neighbour. She is estranged from her husband, an admirable man in many ways, but one who has compelled her to submit to some brutal sexual perversion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a famous preacher, whose advances Bronwen has rejected with contempt, persuades the entire community that she has committed adultery with Pugh, a reckoning is inevitable, and the ill-fated consequences of their actions are recounted in the testimonies of Bronwen, Pugh and the preacher’s cousin, Mr Lloyd.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick O’Brian is world famous for his novels of nautical high adventure, but twenty years before readers were first introduced to Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, he wrote this intensely felt and evocative tale set in the beautiful but often unforgiving\u003cbr\u003eWelsh landscape he knew so well. With all the freshness and immediacy that have become hallmarks of O’Brian’s style, he conveys the hopes and fears, and tragedy, of his characters, demonstrating the flair and sheer humanity that have made him one of the twentieth century’s literary greats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a small, rural town, this best-seller by O’Brian is a romance that delves deep into the psychological complexities of its characters. The story is a testament to his standing as a top author of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Michael Connelly (The Law of Innocence), Simon Scarrow (Eagles of the Empire I, II, and III), Iain Pears (The Last Judgement), Antoine Vanner (Britannia's Guile), and Robert Harris (V2).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick O’Brian, Read by Rachel Isaac, Dyfrig Morris and Tim Treloar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889106342037,"sku":"9780008529727","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008529727_d060f9e6-5197-4a18-a2d7-1adde3d478a2.jpg?v=1776888493","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008529727_testimonies-the-intense-and-evocative-unmissable-first-adult-literary-novel-by-the-world-famous-master-of-nautical-historical-adventure-fiction","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}