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Human Voices

by Penelope Fitzgerald

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Human Voices is a 1980 novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald. It relates the fictionalised experiences of a group of BBC employees at Broadcasting House, London, in 1940 when the city was under nightly attack from the Luftwaffe's high explosive, incendiary, and parachute bombs.

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"Fitzgerald's "Human Voices," about the BBC in wartime, has become one of my all-time favorite books and was a big influence on "Transcription.""
By the Book: Kate Atkinson · nytimes.com