Dervla McTiernan

I totally agree with you.

I think it's everything.

A narrator makes or breaks an audiobook.

And I think it's the combination of a few things.

First of all, a voice you actually like listening to, because that's kind of key.

Secondly, someone who knows how to both tell a story and perform a story and knows when to do which one.

Because I think sometimes narrators have no performance and sometimes there's too much performance.

You know, you just need them to tell the story.

But the people who can get that exactly right.

Oh, I mean, I will follow a narrator as much as I'll follow a writer.

I think it does bring another level, doesn't it?

Although I think, wasn't it?

I haven't listened to this one yet, but did Michelle Williams narrate Britney Spears?

Yeah.

I think it's more about what I'm writing because we do have, there's a rhythm to Irish speech that we are familiar with that feels comfortable to us.

And I use that sort of rhythm, our structure in my writing when I'm writing a book that's set in Ireland.

And I do it unconsciously, you know, the back to front, a little bit of it comes from Irish, the putting the sentence back to front,

There's certain things we just do naturally.

And I think a lyricism to that, but it doesn't sit right with an American book and it doesn't sit right with an Australian set book.

So I have to adjust that much.