This Is the End, Stella Benson
This Is the End, Stella Benson
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This Is the End

Author: Stella Benson

Narrator: Christine Rendel

Unabridged: 5 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 04/14/2020

Synopsis

In the spring of 1916, we meet orphaned sister and brother Jay and Kew Martin in London. Jay (real name Jane Elizabeth) has run away from her strange, claustrophobic, interfering, well-heeled family to the simplicities of the Brown Borough (otherwise Hackney), to live amongst its working-class people, to a job as a bus conductor, and to discover her own wild self. Kew is on recuperative leave from the War, and manages to find Jay in her humble new abode. She begs him to preserve her newfound freedom and not reveal her whereabouts to their family. But nothing can stop their former guardians, the eccentric writer Anonyma Martin and her husband, their dry cousin Gustus, from setting out to try to find her, using clues from Jay’s letters. The problem is, Jay’s letters have been fabricated from her extraordinary dream-filled imagination; she’s set them on a wild goose-chase!

About Christine Rendel

Christine Rendel is a British-born audiobook narrator living in New York. Drawing on a strong stage and musical theater background, and a lifelong love of books, she has narrated nearly 100 audiobooks for major publishers as well as smaller independent houses. Her favorite genres include cozy mystery, romance, literature, historical drama, biography, and nonfiction. She also enjoys narrating how-to's and educational texts: retired for some years from an exciting and international healthcare career, Christine's always a teacher and always learning! Christine maintains a professional home studio on the end of eastern Long Island, from which she narrates and produces audiobooks, surrounded by nature, an unruly garden, and her supportive family-who also include two dogs and a lot of Koi fish. She's a proud member of PANA, SAG-AFTRA, the Audio Publishers Association, and Actors' Equity Association.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan on May 20, 2016

A free copy can be found here: [URL not allowed] However I would recommend getting the newly re-printed version, not least to support the independent publisher trying to get these books back into print. The wiki about her is not bad: [URL not allowed] Here is......more

Goodreads review by Dunya on August 14, 2022

"This is the end, for the moment, of all my thinking, this is my unfinal conclusion. There is no reason in tangible things, and no system in the ordinary ways of the world. Hands were made to grope, and feet to stumble, and the only things you may count on are the unaccountable things." "Conversatio......more

Goodreads review by Zen on May 29, 2011

I didn't like this as much as the other Benson I've read; the rambling about Destiny and Secret Worlds and whatnot became a bit tiresome. Anonyma/Mrs. Gustus was the best part. But the ending was splendidly depressing, I'll give it that.......more

Goodreads review by Gareth on June 20, 2022

Can a book as short as this be described as rambling? There is much to enjoy, but there is also a lot that left me bemused and befuddled. Shades of early Aldous Huxley for me.......more

Goodreads review by Maki on June 28, 2024

Il y a une forme de violence plus dur dans ce texte au contraire de ma première lecture de l'autrice. Il y a de la magie mais moins et moins de joie et d'entrain. On cherche toujours à survivre et s'éloigner de la guerre mais dans celui ci elle nous rattrape et on cherche en vain les moyens de vivre......more

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