The Names
The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life? In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son’s birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends fo...
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Cora watches as the letters form, each one emerging like some magical and extraordinary thing from the nib of the registrar’s pen as it moves across the page.
Bear Atkin. Bear. Just four letters, B-E-A-R, but each one feels charged, no longer just consonants and vowels.
A great surge of—what is this thing?—joy, yes, that’s it, joy—courses through Cora’s being.
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- Prologue 12:32
- Chapter Bear 18:40
- Chapter Julian 20:06
- Chapter Gordon 27:34
- Bear 24:30
- Julian 22:37
- Gordon 32:19
- Bear 20:32
- Chapter 12 24:10
- Chapter 13 33:40
- Chapter 15 29:25
- Chapter 16 33:36
- Gordon 32:12
- Bear 46:25
- Julian 27:34
- Gordon 38:00
- Chapter 23 44:28
- Chapter 24 47:41
- Chapter 25 32:34
- Epilogue 07:01