
Birnam Wood
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Narrated by:
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Saskia Maarleveld
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By:
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Eleanor Catton
About this listen
Birnam Wood is on the move...
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned.
But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker - or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?
A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
©2023 Granta Books (P)2023 Audible, Ltd.One billionaire, one rich knight, one wife, two young women and one man are at one point or another are all in the same place, without knowing. Under the southern skies, bodies are piling up , guilt is mounting, mayhem, madness and misery have arrived.
Brilliance… in irksome characters.
Fabulous listen thank you Eleanor Catton, much appreciated. :-)
Hmmm…
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Great prose but long-winded with an untidy ending
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Gripping Eco thriller
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Clever and Gripping
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Couldn’t finish, narrator put me to sleep
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PS I've been thinking of others' descriptions of a character as a 'bond villain'. It's true but I think she's used this character as a vehicle to portray a person who sees every situation and person and landscape as an opportunity for advantage and the means by which such a person becomes master of our society and the damage that causes.
Wow. What an ending
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Believable and interesting
Incredible end that took us quite aback
Great story beginning to end
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She's done it again. This time with a gripping, twisty, modern-day thriller. Loved the insight and reflection scattered throughout (so rare in a pacey plot-driven novel like this). Couldn't put it down.
Superb performance too, so refreshing to have New Zealand names and Māori words pronounced correctly (thank you!).
Eleanor Catton is a genius
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Action packed story
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profetic writing
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