Kate Evans
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26,301 appearances
191 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 2d ago
Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think that's part of what adds to its power.
It's just some great writing that lifts off the page.
And as a narrator, Bren is a really interesting one because he's not entirely on board with Caelan's projects.
You know, and even with this work that he's doing and he's thinking about his family and he's thinking about his friendship.
So there's a tension there as well that is also an important part of the story because it's ostensibly his view, but there's a whole critique in there.
And such a fresh portrayal of Australia.
I mean, just because it's so inventive.
He's remaking suburbs, he's remaking the landscape because, you know, there are these extraordinary figures.
Are they figures in the landscape?
That is so inventive.
And the impact of that is that it's not didactic.
Yeah.
And it's giving us space to think about what these things mean and how they work without being programmatic about it, which some climate fiction can be.
So yes, as you say, it means it's a generous act of writing that's leaving space for us as active readers.
And he does make a nod to the whole tradition of tree literature as well.
There's a reference in there to Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees, to Tolkien's Ents and to other tree writing.
And that's Rhett Davis's Arborescence, published by Hachette.
Yes, and this novel plays around with reality.
But Seth, before we distort that reality, let's begin with a family and a house in London.
It's October 1987.
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