The Transition, Luke Kennard
The Transition, Luke Kennard
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The Transition
A Novel

Author: Luke Kennard

Narrator: Joe Gaminara

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2018


Synopsis

"Narrator Joe Gaminara keeps listeners right where the author wants them: teetering between perception and reality." — AudioFile Magazine

From acclaimed British poet Luke Kennard comes The Transition: an intriguing and mysterious debut audiobook.

Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? Has either of you considered turning to a life of a crime? You are not alone. We know. We can help.

Welcome to the Transition.

While taking part in the Transition, you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your mentors, two successful adults of a slightly older generation. Freed from your financial responsibilities, you will be coached through the key areas of the scheme—Employment, Nutrition, Responsibility, Relationship, Finances, and Self-respect—until you are ready to be reintegrated into adult society.

At the end of your six months, who knows what discoveries you’ll have made about yourself? The “friends” you no longer need. The talents you’ll have found time to nurture. The business you might have kick-started. Who knows where you’ll be?

More praise for The Transition:

“The sort of book that cuts you off from your family and has you walking blindly through seven lanes of traffic with your face pressed obliviously to the page.” —James Marriott, The Times (London)

About Luke Kennard

Luke Kennard is the author of several collections of poetry. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and was short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2007 and for the International Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017. He lectures at the University of Birmingham and was selected by the Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets in 2014. The Transition is his first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Blair on February 09, 2017

We never find out when exactly The Transition is set, but let's say it's 10 or 15 years from now, and its protagonists, Karl and Genevieve, are a vaguely nightmarish but entirely plausible vision of how many university-educated millennials might expect to end up. In their mid-thirties, they're marri......more

Goodreads review by Peter on March 26, 2017

Karl Temperley has got himself into a spot of bother. In an attempt to pay his eye-watering credit card debt, he became involved in an online scam operation and stands charged with fraud. Facing prison time, he is offered salvation in the form of a little-known program called The Transition, "a help......more

Goodreads review by Dannii on March 27, 2017

I received this in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. Thank you to he author, Luke Kennard, and the publisher, Fourth Estate, for this opportunity. This is a haunting insight into how our very close future lives could be led. Karl and Genevieve have been married for four years and been in......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on January 30, 2018

I heard Luke Kennard on an episode of BBC Radio 4’s 'Open Book' discussing dystopian fiction and so was inspired to read his debut novel The Transition. The Transition has an interesting and intriguing premise. Set in Britain in, at a guess, the early 2020s, with driverless cars and self-stocking fr......more

Goodreads review by Alan on March 01, 2018

Intriguing novel set in a near future (driverless taxis, smart fridges etc), with a likeable jack the lad, Karl, writing students' essays (Study Sherpas), reviewing products he's never used (for money), who ends up on 'The Transition', an alternative to jail. This involves living with his wife, a te......more


Quotes

"Narrator Joe Gaminara keeps listeners right where the author wants them: teetering between perception and reality." -AudioFile


Awards

  • Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year