My Sister the Moon cover art

My Sister the Moon

Ivory Carver Trilogy, Book 2

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

My Sister the Moon

By: Sue Harrison
Narrated by: Holly Fielding
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

An abused and unwanted daughter of the First Men Tribe, young Kiin knows the harsh realities of life in a frozen land at the top of the world. In an age of ice nine millenia past, her destiny is tied to the brave sons of orphaned chagak and her chieftain mate kayugh - one to whom, Kiin is promised, the, other for whom she yearns But the evil that her own family spawned drags the tormented young woman far from her people - where savage cruelties, love and fate will strenghten and change her... and give her the courage to fight for the future of her own helpless progeny.

©1992 Sue Harrison (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Historical Fiction World Literature Fiction Native American Destiny

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Mother Earth, Father Sky cover art
Song of the River cover art
The Village of Bones: Sabalah's Tale cover art
Black Ships cover art
Tidewater cover art
In the Shadow of the Gods cover art
Outlaw cover art
Voice of the Eagle cover art
Imhotep cover art
The Boneless Mercies cover art
Of Ice and Snow cover art
Tiger Lily cover art
The Game of Silence cover art
Heart of a Lion cover art
Loki's Daughters cover art
Eden: Biblical Fiction of the World's First Family cover art
All stars
Most relevant
I love Sue Harrison's books, and this is book 2 of my favourite trilogy. The story, set in 7th Century BC in the Aleutian islands, follows Kiin and her hard life, beaten by her father, abused and deprived, yet loved by Samiq. He wishes she could be his wife, but her life was saved at birth from infanticide by being promised as wife to Samiq's brother Amgigh. There are many things about their early lives the brothers do not realise, their destinies sealed at an early age. The story carries these three central characters through a turbulent, suspenseful and painful life.

I have these books, plus others of Sue Harrison's, in paperback form, as they are my favourites, and was hoping to deepen my enjoyment by listening to them being read aloud. However, Holly Fielding, the narrator, is completely dismal. Her flat monotonous voice brings nothing to the story, ignores cues such as "he whispered", lacks emotion or any empathy for the characters. She doesn't manage to sound either kind or cruel when called to do so by the different characters. She sounds as if the whole story bores her and she can't be bothered to give it any feeling. Her only concession to accuracy is she does managed to stutter a little when reading Kiin's words, as Kiin has a very bad stammer in the story. She does vary her voice tone more than in the first volume, but only within the monotone which is her norm. 😴

She has an annoying habit of pausing or hesitating in the middle of a sentence, so that it doesn't flow properly but sounds disjointed. "Bubbles of milk from his. Nursing appeared at his mouth".
"He helped Kiin make a shelter of hides. Driftwood and mats".... 🤨
Poor Ms Fielding also appears to have a blocked nose, which makes her flat narration even less pleasant to listen to. 👃🙄😞

Her mispronunciations of Aleut words, and even common words used in English such as cache as "cashay", niche as "nitch" and chiton as "cheeten" ("chee'en" in her heavy American accent) instead of the correct "kyton" are also really irritating - there's a pronunciation glossary in the front of the paperbacks after all. In fact, by halfway through the book, listening to her say "food cashayed for winter" I actually wanted to scream "CACHE!!!" (cash) "It's CACHE!!! " at her every time she called it a "cashay".

I even looked her up on the ACX website (where Audible gets their narrators, most of whom are professional actors) and discovered to my dismay that she has been auditioned and approved and has narrated hundreds of books!! What are these people thinking?!! when there are so many far better narrators out there.
All in all, sadly I will be forced to avoid any book narrated by Holly Fielding in the future.

Wonderful epic story spoilt by flat narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
the narration *is* a bit monotonous but the story is so good I could overlook that and see it as more understated. it sounds like the narrator is not very experienced tbh. really good story tho

awesome story. monotonous narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This series is one of my favourite book series. I have read all of Sue Harrison's books and they are wonderful. A completely immersive, authentic and well-researched tale of 7th century Aleut tribespeople, based on a seal hunter legend. The life of the main character is absolutely heartbreaking from beginning to end. Sue has even researched the cadence and nuance of the way Aleut people speak and their particular societal characteristics.

I jumped at the chance to listen to this on Audible.

Sadly I was devastated by the abysmally poor narration. Monotone, flat, completely emotionless, bunged up and nasal, the narrator completely ignores all the textual cues such as "she shouted" or "he whispered", she doesn't sound happy or sad when the story calls for it. Mostly she sounds as if she's falling asleep with boredom. It's such a crying shame. She also lacks the ability to look up the words she doesn't know how to pronounce!!! and so the whole book is riddled with cringeable mispronunciations that grate on the ear: "niche" becomes "nitch", "cache" becomes "cashay", "babiche" she pronounces "babitchy" instead of "Babeesh". - Surely She should realise these 3 words alone do actually follow some sort of grammatical logical sense and aew pronounced the same way??? Babeesh, Neesh, Cash??? She has no clue how to pronounce any of the Aleut names, which can easily be looked up in the glossary at the back of the book! (Yeah, the book she is holding in her hands to read from!!!!) And she flounders around with the name "Kayugh", sometimes he's "Keyuh", other times "Ky-uh" or "Ky-oo". The main character in the story is a woman called "Kiin" Which the glossary informs us is pronounced "Keen" - however, the narrator persists in saying her name "Kih- inn". I got so lost in the woods shouting at the narrator. each time she pronounced "cashay" that a lot of the joy of the story was drained. I actually emailed the author asking if anything could be done about the terrible narration, but she says authors have no choice in narrators and she was as horrified as me.

magical story, abysmal narration!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Well written, absorbs you- I listened in like 4 days! Story is slow to open but once it flows, wow does it flow.
Some folk have said narrator not to their taste- I’ve got to speak in her defence! Beautiful soft voice which fits with the main character and suits the melodic language of the book. Give it a go!

Beautiful story that picks up pace as you go

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I'm really enjoying this trilogy and look forward to finding out what happens in the last book.

The narrator doesn't seem too enthused by the story, oddly, but the tale itself is intriguing enough to compensate for this.

A compelling story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews