Broken Light, Joanne Harris
Broken Light, Joanne Harris
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Broken Light

Author: Joanne Harris

Narrator: Imogen Stubbs

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/18/2023


Synopsis

A bold and timely novel that explores how women can feel invisible as they grow older—and what happens when they decide to take back control.
Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone, even Bernie herself. At nineteen she was full of promise, but now, facing fifty and going through the menopause, she's a fading light.
Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a talent that she has hidden all her adult life.
What happens when the frustrations and power of an older woman are finally given their chance to be revealed?
Filled with growth and redemption, revenge and visibility, friendship and self-discovery, Broken Light is an explosive new thriller that challenges our notions of womanhood and power.

About Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris (MBE) was born in Barnsley in 1964 to a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat. Her books are now published in over fifty countries and have won a number of British and international awards. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science. She works from a shed in her garden and lives with her husband and daughter in a little wood in Yorkshire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

4.5 rounded up ‘Little girl. Make them look’. As a child Bernie Moon is seen as different, strange and is an outsider. By 16, she’s transformed, they sure see her now and it seems her world is full of possibilities. Now, she’s approaching 50, menopausal and invisible. However, when a young female jo......more

Goodreads review by Audrey

Well, that was a weird one! To be honest I’m not sure what exactly to make of this latest offering from Joanne Harris. As always, her writing is mesmerising, and both the narrative and protagonist compelling, but I’m left feeling totally disoriented, like I’ve been tripping on some kind of hallucino......more