Radio Girls

I listened to the audiobook version and the reader did a fine job capturing the various voices of the characters. Maisy swiftly changes her opinions from being a “men are always right” dimwit to a more thoroughly modern Maisy. In the audio, it seemed that the shift both took way took long and was also way too swift. If that makes any kind of sense.

Later in the novel, the story gets a little convoluted as the author mixes in both BBC politics and history with early days of Nazi sympathizers and MI-5. The authors note at the end clarified that much of the story was based on the real life of Hilda and blended many aspects of her long career into a shorter period of time. So, much of these things did happen, just not all at once. Hence being a little slapdash.

What I found most interesting was how timeless the story is in our current political environment. Because the whole story occurs before WWII, seeing the build up of paranoia, the us vs. them propaganda and distrust. It's a cautionary retelling to be sure.