Another Life
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Narrated by:
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Erin Doherty
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Kingsley Ben-Adir
About this listen
For fans of Octavia E Butler, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman, a thrilling, heart-wrenching debut novel from Karla Marie Sweet, exploring disparity of privilege, the quest for identity and the human need for connection.
When the External Womb Programme is launched, the news is controversial. Hundreds take to the streets in protest, feeling strongly that growing a baby outside of the human body is "unnatural". But thousands more people rejoice: at last, an alternative for those who wish to have children but worry about the physical toll it may take. A chance that throwing a baby-shaped grenade into one's career path might not derail it entirely.
For Lucy, whose acting career is finally taking off, the news is well worth celebrating. Could having a baby this way mean she can have it all? As she and her husband James embark on their journey, however, it becomes clear she's not being entirely honest with him and, as an old flame returns, everything is thrown into jeopardy.
Decades later, the use of external wombs is commonplace. But a corrupt government stepping into power leads to this groundbreaking piece of technology falling into the wrong hands, forcing everyone to reckon with a challenging new world and their place within it.
Performed by Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love), Another Life marks the arrival of a brilliant new literary talent that will thrill, entertain and challenge you from beginning to end.
©2024 Karla Marie Sweet (P)2024 Audible Ltd.
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- Mr Me
- 10-10-24
A gripping listen
A stark, distopian look of the future that could actually happen. Emotive, well written and well narrated. Definitely worth a listen
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-10-24
Beautiful reading voices
Interesting concept. Could have been investigated a bit deeper but think the story gave you room for thought even if I didn’t really feel like the main characters stories intertwined enough.
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- Abi
- 27-10-24
A moving and well thought out story of two different lives in different times colliding
The story is moving, the story of two different times but only a generation apart. New technology that begins as an amazing thing to help people, but ends up corrupted, the story of how to survive things out with your control.
Beautifully read, with appropriate accents and warm voices, this story really sucks you in, you feel for all the characters involved, and the ending is so satisfying!
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- Julie
- 05-01-25
Has everything
It’s a great story with great writing. Absolutely worth a read if you like stories like A Handmaids Tale.
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- Zoe.d.b
- 25-09-24
brilliant
really great book. the voices were great and the storyline amazing. loved the ending.
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- Marie
- 14-11-24
meh
this book is based on an interesting premise but the story is not developed in a satisfying way. I was left with lots of questions and wondering why certain aspects of the story happened or were bothered with, when there was such an interesting backdrop to be explored. male narrator was great, convincing and consistent but female one sounded too young and lacked confidence in her performance.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-10-24
Certainly do able
The plot of this story doesn’t feel that far fetched and will probably happen at some point in the future.
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- R. Batchelor
- 19-10-24
Narrators were good, but story dull
This was long and pointless and dull, and I had so many questions, but it plodded on with so little detail about anything interesting and so much detail about nothing! It was ok and I feel bad leaving a rubbish review but it was meh.
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- DC
- 30-09-24
black mirror fans will love this
the narrator's were really good, the story was excellent. definitely one for Margaret Attwood fans.
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- louise
- 21-10-24
Great dystopia but with modern flares that hit hard
Really great book, well performed. Love the nodd to 1984. Captivating and love the true elements intertwined with fiction. Could not 'put it down'.
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