Genevieve Gaunt has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is The Discomfort of Evening.
The Discomfort of Evening
Summary
Shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize A stark and gripping tale of childhood grief from one of the most exciting new voices in Dutch literature Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world: her face soft like cheese under her mother’s hands; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads in the village; the sound of “blush words” that aren’t in the Bible. One icy morning, the disciplined rhythm of her family’s life is ruptured by a tragic accident, and Jas is convinced she is to blame. As her parents’ suffering makes them increasingly distant, Jas and her siblings develop a curiosity about death that leads them into disturbing rituals and fantasies. Cocooned in her red winter coat, Jas dreams of “the other side” and of salvation, not knowing where this dreaming will finally lead her. A bestseller in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s radical debut novel The Discomfort of Evening offers listeners a rare vision of rural and religious life in the Netherlands. In it, they ask: In the absence of comfort and care, what can the mind of a child invent to protect itself? And what happens when that is not enough? With stunning psychological acuity and images of haunting, violent beauty, Rijneveld has created a captivating world of language unlike any other.
©2018 Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Translation © 2020 by Michele Hutchison. Epigraph quotations appear on: a statue of Maurice Gilliams in Antwerp (source unknown); from ‘Spring’ in The Collected Poems of Jan Wolkers, published as Verzamelde gedichten in 2008 by De Bezige Bij. (P)2020 Audible Ltd., all rights reserved.
Code Name Bananas
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Go back in time with number one best-selling author David Walliams for a whizz-bang epic adventure of action, laughter and secret plots - and the extraordinary friendship between a little boy and a huge gorilla that just might save the day.... 1940. Britain is at war with Nazi Germany. Eleven-year-old Eric spends his days at the place that makes him most happy: London Zoo. And there’s one animal in particular he loves: Gertrude the gorilla. With bombs falling all over London, Eric must rescue Gertrude. Together with his uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside they uncover a top-secret Nazi plot.... Join David Walliams on this action-packed, laugh-out-loud adventure for all the family!
©2020 David Walliams (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
The Human Frontier: Series 1
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One crew takes the long route, sleeping for 1,000 years, in secret, on a ship called The Human Frontier. The other crew set off hundreds of years later, at hyper speed. When the sleepers wake as they approach the planet, the hyper-speed crew have been living there for 300 years already - and they have no clue the ‘sleepers’ are about to arrive. Part One: Possibility of Life Two awakenings. One is unexpected, the other is a dire emergency. One brings love. Both bring danger. This is the voyage of The Human Frontier. Part Two: Nowhere Near Neptune There’s a world called Triton. Its people have a long history of struggle and suffering. And they’ve never heard of The Human Frontier. Part Three: Machine Minds Anna Swift discovers the secret future history of Earth. And Triton discovers the secret past of The Human Frontier. Part Four: Control Is it the Tritons, Nilly, Planet Five...? Who is in control? And what does the future hold for The Human Frontier? Director: Nicholas Briggs Producer: Emma Haigh Executive Producers: Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs The Human Frontier is a trademark of Red Raygun Ltd.
©2020 Big Finish Productions (P)2020 Big Finish Productions