The Names

The Names

Author: Florence Knapp Listening Length: 9h 36m

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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Julian

Each morning, as Julian walks down the corridor to his studio in the Old Chocolate Factory, he glances through the small internal windowpanes, absorbing fragments of each space.

Some are so overwhelmed by a chaos of tools and mess that the artist inside looks almost dwarfed by it, as though their work threatens to consume them.

Others are more orderly, with a discernible workflow: cutting table, industrial machines, bolts of fabric, pattern pieces strung from giant butchers’ hooks.