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The Chrysalids
- Narrated by: Noah Reid
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, his niece Rosalind and their friends have their own secret aberration that would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badland....
About the author: John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903, the son of a barrister. He tried a number of careers, including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. From 1930 to 1939 he wrote stories of various kinds under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories for publication in the USA and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'.
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- Tracey Sawyer
- 17-12-2021
an old favourite
This is an old favourite revisited. It is much better than I remember from my teenage years... perhaps now I am mature enough to understand the emotions better.
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- Stan
- 09-01-2022
One of the best stories I’ve ever heard.
This book is going straight to the top of my favourites it’s that fantastic. It was written a long time ago but it feels as if it could’ve been written yesterday. It’s so hard to describe & other reviewers do a much better job than I do. All ill add is that It’s got an amazing kind of fantasy world morality to it that makes you think deeply about the way you view cultures & the people in them without being at all preachy or contrived.
The narrator is equally as brilliant & does a phenomenal job at conveying every emotion whilst still being even keeled. I can’t think of a single thing he could’ve done better. I will not only be checking out other books by this author, I’ll also be on the look out for other books read by this narrator.
10/10 on all front!
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- DebB
- 23-01-2022
Wow! Fabulous
I’ve just gotta say it…this book is wonderful! I’m a little shocked that a book written in 1955 can feel so fresh and relevant. I’ve read John Wyndhams other books (Day of the Triffids, Midwich Cuckoos, Trouble with Lichen etc) and those ones feel a little dated. But The Chrysalids was a complete surprise. A wonderful story and absolutely beautifully narrated, it’s definitely going on my Favourite Book list. I love everything about it…thanks so much Audible for putting it in the Plus Catalogue.
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- Kate D.
- 13-01-2022
Bloody brilliant!
I have never read this book but it’s on par with The Day off the Triffids.
Great narrator too.
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- Sonya Howden
- 02-01-2022
A great performance of a classic!
This is the book that inspired my love of science fiction/fantasy. The actor does a terrific job.
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- Robert Williams
- 17-12-2021
I remember this from the BBC radio play
I remember this from the BBC Radio play decades ago. I was struck how much of it had stuck with me all those years. A prophetic writer
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- Anonymous User
- 22-03-2024
Absolutely captivating!
Such a great and unusual story. Got through it in one day, I couldn’t stop.
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- joshua kerr
- 27-02-2024
So creative - ahead of the time.
My second Wyndham. I love how he thinks and creates his characters, it's so well thought through and the ending - so hopeful. I loved it.
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- Miss D
- 19-02-2024
A loved classic
I read this book several times when I was a kid, naming it as one of my favourite books! It still has a great deal of appeal as an adult, able to understand the depths of this story on another level altogether. I think John Wyndham is one of the great pioneers of science fiction writing, engaging us in questions of ethics, religion, education and (most importantly) what it really means to be human.
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- Anna Cherkasova
- 10-02-2024
Captivating story
It is all so very believable, all characters have depth and the plot is captivating. Beautiful narration as well
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