Used. Paperback. Penelope Fitzgerald dials up the dry wit in *Human Voices*, a brilliant wartime broadcast from inside the BBC's Blitz-battered concert-hall-turned-dormitory. As bombs drop and bureaucratic friction crackles between rival directors, a smitten sixteen-year-old named Annie tunes into a frequency of first loves and workplace absurdity. Fitzgerald captures the eccentric cadence of British broadcasting history with surgical precision and effortless charm. It is a wonderfully sharp, static-free slice of historical fiction that proves even the loudest sirens cannot drown out the human comedy.