Life as Carola, Joan Grant
Life as Carola, Joan Grant
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Life as Carola
A Far Memory Book

Author: Joan Grant

Narrator: Mil Nicholson

Unabridged: 12 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/30/2019


Synopsis

The second of Joan Grant’s Far Memory novels, Life as Carola gives a fascinating glimpse into life in Italy just before the height of the Renaissance. As a child growing up in Edwardian England, Joan Grant became aware of an astonishing ability to remember previous lifetimes. As an author, she professed her seven novels to be based on her personal recollections of other incarnations, male and female. Carola was the illegitimate daughter of an Italian nobleman, the Lord of the Griffin, in sixteenth-century Italy. Cast out at an early age, she joined a band of strolling players. In her short lifetime, Carola gathers harsh experiences of poverty, violence, and bigotry, softened by the friendships she makes on the road: with Petruchio, both jester and sage; with Bernard, the gentle strongman, and Lucia, the harlot who loves him; and with healer Sofia, whose fate warns Carola to keep quiet about her dreams of the Shining One who guides and comforts her.

About Mil Nicholson

Mil Nicholson performs audiobooks at her studio in the quiet Appalachian Mountains. She has narrated a series of fantasy novels by Dave Duncan, a western romance series by Janet Dailey for Audible, and Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey for Blackstone Audio, among many others, and has recently finished recording her ninth novel by Charles Dickens for Librivox. She also voices the works of the philosophers of the seventeenth century at www.EarlyModernTexts.com. Her vocal range includes both male and female of all ages, specializing in the accents of the British Isles. Mil has been acclaimed in particular for her rendering of the many voices in Dickens, and for breathing life into his sometimes long monologues. Websites: www.MilNicholson.com and www.Act2Sc3.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rose on April 07, 2024

To this Goodreader, this is the saddest tale in Joan Grant's magnificent spiritual autobiographies. As Carola, she begins this incarnation as the illegitimate daughter of a very powerful Italian nobleman. No matter what she does, this incarnation is stuffed with problems -- and what I would call "Ret......more

Goodreads review by TeresaE247 on May 07, 2019

What an interesting story, memory, life. During the first few chapters I enjoyed them and was getting into the flow of a beautiful story. Unlike Winged Pharaoh, I was not connecting with Carola, or the setting, in the same resonance that I did in the other book. Until she enters the cloister. Wham, read......more


Quotes

“Here is an unusual book that shines with fire and that is packed with incident. It is vivid, dramatic, and skillfully put together.” New York Times