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Narrated by:
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David Field
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By:
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Tim Winton
About this listen
'A hold-your-breath adventure set in an utterly plausible, sun-hammered future, Juice will stab your conscience and break your heart’ - Emma Donoghue
'A blistering cli-fi epic' - The Guardian, Best Books of the Autumn
Survival is only the beginning.
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They’re exhausted, traumatized, desperate now, and this is a forsaken place, but as a refuge it’s the most promising they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work.
Problem is, they’re not alone . . .
So begins a searing, epic journey through a life where the challenge is not only to survive; it’s keeping your humanity if you do.
Juice is a stunning novel for fans of Station Eleven and The Road, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton.
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'Like some old-time saga, an oral epic told forward into history' (Cynan Jones)
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- Anonymous User
- 24-10-24
exceptional
fantastic story, great characters very gripping. overall well recommended book. love the accent of the narrator as well it's a bit different
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- Palmster
- 23-11-24
A solemn angry letter from the future we ruined
A bleak near hopeless account of what will happen if we continue blindfolded into environmental wreckage. Mad max style visual landscapes set to a story of revenge on those who profited from the fuel that set this fire burning. On the surface, at least. In the minds of survivors, a stubborn will to make do, eke a life, some kind of existence. It feels like an inevitable slow slide back into creatures of little consequence. Life on Earth ending how it began but by our own hands.
This is not a story of hope and silver linings. It’s not supposed to be. This is a different way of giving us a look back at the present, showing us what is happening to us right now. Or rather what we’re allowing to happen to ourselves because we are too caught up in the here-and-now to truly realise the scale of what’s going on despite all the signs. Our children’s children are not thinking kindly of us.
A compelling story. Sometimes the pace feels glacial but that’s what you buy into with Tim Winton. Like Dirt Music, the only other book of his I have read admittedly, I was happy to finish it, to be ‘done with it’. Yet the mood of that story continues to live in my mind many years later. I suspect Juice will do the same. It will live on angrily. I hope I will do more to ensure that this story remains just that.
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- milesphoto
- 31-10-24
Strangely compulsive listening but too long
I preferred The Road, to which this is similar (especially the ending).
The narration suffers by having several mispronunciations, (especially cache, pronounced throughout as caché.) Why don’t publishers monitor narration?
I enjoyed lots of the imagery and story but, to me, much of it seemed repetitive without moving the story on.
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- Chetflippo
- 07-11-24
Totally captivating
I normally listen to non fiction but heard this reviewed on R4 and they all loved it so gave it a go. A bleak but compelling story of a future earth gone through climate disaster that is totally believable and indeed predicted if we carry on. But it’s not preaching to the past, it’s a tale of survival in the inferno of an earth where climate heating has run away. It’s a story of suffering and attempt at dignity told in a grim situation. I could not stop listening but didn’t want it to end. The narrators voice is perfect, the story powerful, one of the best audio books I have had the pleasure and pain to experience.
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- Sarah
- 02-11-24
A gripping adventure
Loved everything and I’m going to miss it now I’ve finished it! Brilliantly read and a really compulsive listen.
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- Nicholas
- 16-11-24
Gave up
Gave up after two hours listening when it became apparent no coherent storyline was going to materialise. It is very well written but that doesn’t really help when there is no story being told
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