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The Weather Woman
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
The rich and atmospheric new novel from prize-winning author Sally Gardner, set in the 18th century between the two great Frost Fairs.
Neva Friezland is born into a world of trickery and illusion, where fortunes can be won and lost on the turn of a card.
She is also born with an extraordinary gift. She can predict the weather. In Regency England, where the proper goal for a gentlewoman is marriage and only God knows the weather this is dangerous. It is also potentially very lucrative.
In order to debate with the men of science and move about freely, Neva adopts a sophisticated male disguise. She foretells the weather from inside an automaton created by her brilliant clockmaker father.
But what will happen when the disguised Neva falls in love with a charismatic young man?
It can be very dangerous to be ahead of your time. Especially as a woman.
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- Ravin Rover
- 08-01-24
Wonderful story telling by a magnificent narrator
This story reads like a river running in and about the characters, pulling you along from one event to the next. Pure magical storytelling leaves you wanting more. The narrator miraculously has you engaged with each character individually, using only small intonations in her voice but along with the descriptions styles each different characters emerges effortlessly. I shall be looking up other things she has narrated & wait impatiently for the next Sally Gardner tale.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-11-22
A beautiful and original tale
An absolutely beautiful story, one that will stay with me for a long time to come. Fabulous!
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- MS L
- 25-11-22
Magical listen!
I loved this book so much, transported to regency England with a host of wonderful characters I was completely absorbed!
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- Mr M R Last Mrs S L Last
- 30-09-23
Lovely
Really enjoyed the twists and turns of this. Contoured up detailed pictures in my minds eye.
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- Sian Child
- 08-01-24
An interesting historical fiction
The story explores what it must be like to live in a time when you are less free due to your sex or class. Very interesting as a concept.
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- Rodrigo Canete
- 17-02-24
Intricated story, Brexitism and blatant homophobia
One of the things that shocked me about this book was the fact that two couples carry the narrative: the first one is heterosexual and is the main source of virtue. The heroine is talented but must drag as a man to survive. Artifice as condition of empowerment. Until then fair enough, but such space of manoeuvre is never given neither to gays or foreigners. In fact, the other couple who is not even allowed to be presented as such, is composed by two homosexuals who are presented as… well… monsters. The older risks not only his dignity, but his place in heaven (Gardner’s writing is almost biblical in its reliance on chance and legacy) for love, and the author does not give the old gay man the benefit of reparation, nor redemption. Instead, she sadistically submits him to a death through an almost pornographic fellatio allegorised through a very public gambling match that involves the entire swallowing of a herring. Again the biblical as punishment for his refusal to reproduce. Unsurprisingly , the young one is always presented ready to take advantage of the older, and of anyone, which is something that Gardner’s considers despicable only when coming from below and… Via Brexit… abroad. Im the Weather Woman, Mrs Gardner presents sodomites asunreliable, untrustworthy, and if possible extinguishable.
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- Liz
- 01-02-23
Quite disappointing
I've really enjoyed the authors work before, but this one is terrible. i've given up after only a couple of hours listening.
I really wanted to like this, but the book is episodic and lacks the flow and verve of her earlier work. it's clunky and feels very laboured. A real shame
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