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The World Without Us
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
An atmospheric, elegiac and gripping novel, The World Without Us is a beautifully told story of secrets and survival, family and community, loss and renewal.
It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram and returning home wet, muddy and dishevelled. Their father, struggling with his own losses, tends to his apiary and tries to understand why his bees are disappearing. But after he discovers a car wreck and human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family.
One day Tess’ teacher, Jim, encounters Evangeline by the wild Repentance River. Jim is in flight from his own troubles in Sydney, and Evangeline, raised in a mountain commune and bearing the scars of the fire that destroyed it, is a puzzle he longs to solve. As the rainforest trees are felled and the lakes fill with runoff from the expanding mines, Tess watches the landscape of her family undergo shifts of its own. A storm is coming, and the Müllers are in its path.
Sometimes we must confront what has been lost so that we can know the solace of being found....Critic reviews
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- Seph Tan
- 16-08-19
This is NOT the book by Alan Weissman!!!
Don't be like me... note that this book is not by Alan Weissman on Earth without humans. Such a bad taste to use a same title as a popular book.. and Audible.uk doesn't have the book by Alan. Such a disappointment on the selection...
the voice actress was good though. Unfortunately, I'm more disappointed by the story and genre.
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- Sarah
- 07-02-19
slow and steady
there were a few times I wanted to give up with this book, the main character is painted as a troubled woman but actually is just selfish and self absorbed, neglecting her husband and her children. not to mention having killed people and broken hearts without any thought for anyone else. basically I couldn't stand the main character. looking back over the book it seemed to take a long time to not really go far.
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