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Narrated by:
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Louise Brealey
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By:
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Sandra Newman
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She routinely breaks the rules but also collaborates with the regime whenever necessary. Everyone likes Julia. A diligent member of the Junior Anti-Sex League (though she is secretly promiscuous) she knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive.
But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department - a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith - when she sees him locking eyes with a superior from the Inner Party at the Two Minutes Hate. And when one day, finding herself walking toward Winston, she impulsively hands him a note - a potentially suicidal gesture - she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.
Seventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.
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At first I thought it was going long…but, oh, that ending!
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Wow. Erie.
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magnificent
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The other side of the coin
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Fantastic.
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If you have not read 1984, do it, then read this.
So Good!!
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Not like the original where that subject was there but only in the background.
Refund please?
Another female romance?
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My favorite book of 2023, captivating narration
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Good Dystopian Tale
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The scenes in the Ministry of Love were extremely challenging to listen to, but truly they should be. Be advised there are gruesome and vivid descriptions of torture.
The end was chilling. I am so glad I picked this book up.
refreshing new take while still being true to the events of the original telling
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