Kate Evans
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26,301 appearances
191 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 3d ago
Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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a jewel or a bit of tat that isn't thrown at the page here, this for me was a bit of a deal breaker.
It drove you nuts?
It drove me bloody crazy.
Because every time I started to get interested in what was going on, I was thrown out.
Sentence by sentence, I was thrown out of the story and asked to admire something
the language itself.
There are metaphors littered throughout this.
There are similes.
There's personification behind every corner.
There's hyperbole.
I mean, it is just so rich that it actually becomes self-defeating and you find it very hard to connect emotionally with the characters and their journeys, I found.
I mean, I can give you some examples, if you like, from just the opening pages of
Yeah, we are going to have to agree to disagree because... So just this sentence around, this is I think page four or something.
Yet there's more of the father's blood seasoning the soil than some who died here.
And the memory of the mother is kilted into the sky.
I mean, each of those are beautiful metaphors, but one perhaps in a sentence enough.
Here's some similes from the next page.
This is about life on the island.
There are several fires that need constant feeding.
They must sizzle like fried eggs or hissing snakes.
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