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Burntcoat: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Louise Brealey Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780063138056

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

9

Longest Chapter Length:

70:19 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

40:49 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE

""An extraordinary work that will stand as blazing witness to the age that bore it.” -- Sarah Perry

A ""masterpiece"" (Daisy Johnson) of mortality, passion, and human connection, set against the backdrop of a deadly global virus—from the Booker–nominated writer

You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors . . .

In an unnamed British city, the virus is spreading, and like everyone else, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness retreats inside. She isolates herself in her immense studio, Burntcoat, with Halit, the lover she barely knows. As life outside changes irreparably, inside Burntcoat, Edith and Halit find themselves changed as well: by the histories and responsibilities each carries and bears, by the fears and dangers of the world outside, and by the progressions of their new relationship. And Burntcoat will be transformed, too, into a new and feverish world, a place in which Edith comes to an understanding of how we survive the impossible—and what is left after we have.

A sharp and stunning novel of art and ambition, mortality and connection, Burntcoat is a major work from “one of our most influential short story writers” (The Guardian). It is an intimate and vital examination of how and why we create—make art, form relationships, build a life—and an urgent exploration of an unprecedented crisis, the repercussions of which are still years in the learning.

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“A powerful story of art and love set during a global pandemic...This will serve as a benchmark for pandemic fiction.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Quotes

  • "Poetic and sensual."

    — Glamour
  • “A harrowing and memorable vision of decay, collapse, and recovery.”

    — Minneapolis Star Tribune

Awards

  • A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week

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About Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall received a Masters of Letters in creative writing from Scotland’s St. Andrews University, and is the author of four novels, The Wolf Border; Haweswater, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize; The Electric Michelangelo; and Daughters Of The North, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her story collection The Beautiful Indifference won the Portico Prize and was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. She lives in Norwich, England.

About Louise Brealey

Louise Brealey, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, studied history at Cambridge University before studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Manhattan. On television, she appeared in the long-running medical drama Casualty on BBC One in 2002, appearing in ninety-six episodes. Afterwards, she appeared in the BBC serialization of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, as well as Hotel Babylon, Law & Order: UK, Ripper Street, and in all series of Sherlock as Molly Hooper.