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Written by Andrew O'Hagan - Performed by Jerome Pride - Unabridged Fiction - 8 LIBRARY EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 8 hours, 50 minutes

Publisher, Bolinda Audio (March 2007)

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The eagerly anticipated third novel from Andrew O'Hagan, author of the Booker-short listed Our Fathers and Personality.

'As if it is not enough that Andrew O'Hagan can write like an angel, one has to add that he does it in the rare style of an intelligent angel. What a fine novel is Be Near Me.' --Norman Mailer

'Be Near Me is an elegy, a love story, a document of an era, beautifully imagined and composed.' --Joyce Carol Oates

Long listed for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

The eagerly anticipated third novel from Andrew O'Hagan, one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003 and author of the Booker-short listed Our Fathers and Personality.

In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals.

Over the Spring and Summer of 2003, Father David becomes friends with two young people, Mark and Lisa: by the year's end his life is the focus of public hysteria.

As he looks back to his childhood, and to Oxford in the fever of student revolt, Father David begins to reconsider the central events of his life, and to see what may have happened to the political hopes of his generation.

Meanwhile, religious warfare breaks out on his doorstep.

About the Performer: Jerome trained in both the UK and Australia and has since performed in a wide range of theatre productions, including Footprints on Water and The Room. He received Green Room Award nominations for both performances. Jerome has appeared in a variety of independent films, and his television credits include Good Guys Bad Guys and Blue Heelers.