Bianca Marais
speaker
5,233 appearances
41 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Bianca Marais’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 41 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.
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You all heard it there from Chris, so you know it's a good name.
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It is.
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For those of you who are not watching on YouTube, I am holding up the book we're discussing today, The Amateur.
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We're going to link to it on our bookshop.org affiliate page.
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If you buy it there, you support an independent bookstore.
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and the podcast at the same time.
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Now, Chris, before we dive in, I'm going to read the flat copy so everybody knows what we're getting into, and then we'll take it away from there.
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1978.
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It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are floating with 90 when Mira Winston, 18 years old, drives a golf ball from her tee towards the practice net near the clubhouse in Caddyshack.
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The golf ball, weighing 1.6 ounces, tears through the net, traveling 150 miles per hour, and slams with sickening force into the temple of a high school junior named Kenny Foster, rupturing an artery and unleashing a torrent of blood.
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Kenny brings his hand to the side of his head, then topples onto his side.
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He's dead before the ambulance even arrives.
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In the wake of this terrible accident, and everyone at first agrees it was an accident, Mira looks for the comfort in all the wrong places.
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In her lover, Theo Katten, a married man three decades her senior.
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In her mother, a well-kept woman with secrets of her own.
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In the dead caddy's little sisters, girls bewildered by grief.
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But when the investigators look more closely at the torn net, when a detective recalls Mira's history of recklessness, and when Kenny's father spies Mira with her married lover, the affluent and mannered community turns on this once promising young woman.
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A gripping story that takes the reader from the sun-soaked greens of a Tony Westchester country club to the fluorescent-less stand of a county courtroom.
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The amateur asks, what happens when one small moment, a swing, a ball, a piece of string, changes the course of an entire life?
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So as you can all hear just from that really gripping stuff.
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