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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When he’s home for the holidays, he leaves lines of undecipherable code open on his desktop, hoping his father will see.

White, yellow, and blue text against black, rendered in serious monospaced font.

These are the tools of his trade: his scalpels, his forceps, his retractors.

Sometimes he scrolls back and forth, letting the line numbers blur as his clean, honed code flashes by.