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The Stranding
- Narrated by: Kate Sawyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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The Stranding
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Publisher's Summary
Her world fell to pieces.
From the bones she built a new life.
A heartbreaking novel of love, loss and hope about a woman who hides from the end of the world in the belly of a whale.
Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid and complicated life is set against a background hum of darkening news reports from which she deliberately turns away.
When a new romance becomes claustrophobic, Ruth chooses to leave behind the failing relationship, but also her beloved friends and family, and travels to the other side of the world in pursuit of her dream life working with whales in New Zealand.
But when Ruth arrives, the news cycle she has been ignoring for so long is now the new reality. Far from home and with no real hope of survival, she finds herself climbing into the mouth of a beached whale alongside a stranger. When she emerges, it is to a landscape that bears no relation to the world they knew before.
When all has been razed to the ground, what does it mean to build a life?
The Stranding is a story about the hope that can remain even when the world is changed beyond recognition.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-08-2021
Warm Hearted Story of Survival Post Apocalypse
A quite beautiful story of relationships nature and survival after the apocalypse. Nicely told alternating between Ruth’s life before and leading up to the event and her life after. A bit like The Road it is a bittersweet story of love in desperate times. There is a message for those who would risk the world: No-one will care who you were or why you did it.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-10-2023
Beautiful and heart opening
Beautifully written and read, a great journey with lots of descriptive moments. Left feeling grateful about particulars of modern life we take for granted daily, and reflective on what it brings to our future.
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- Patricia Coles
- 16-08-2022
Great Post Apocalyptic Read
I am always looking for post apocalyptic reads and I really enjoyed this book - as in other reviews it is similar to The Road & Station Eleven
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