It is one of the best readings I’ve heard on audible - and I have over 400 books. Her voice is beautiful, but also versatile, managing at different points to be moving, humorous or sly as the plot demands. There’s not a false note, not a nuance missed. You can read many, better and more thorough reviews of the story itself - including by Neil Gaiman, But I must comment on Eleanor Bron’s reading, which is outstanding. It’s a strange, wonderful, poetic work - the language is quite beautiful, the characterisations real and engaging, the plot as gripping as a thriller at times (though I’ve always wanted to know more about what actually happened to Nat at the end). So please forgive this bit of self-indulgent autobiography- the book has been very important to me all my adult life. So when I saw that it has reappeared out of the past - like Mayor Chanticleer from the debatable lands - both as a book and on audible - it is a bit like an old dream coming to life. I never met anyone else who’d even heard of it, and it was really difficult to get hold of once my old copy had fallen apart. Only recently have I discovered that it’s pre-Tolkien, pre-Lewis, pre the whole ‘fantasy’ thing, and very British The book has haunted me ever since. First read this back in the seventies as a student, knowing nothing about the author - if anything, I thought it was probably contemporary, possibly American.
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