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Jolt

By: James Lawless
Narrated by: Heber Rowan
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About this listen

A North of Ireland woman learns through her child's tragedy how to face her prejudices while on a holiday in Turkey. Shortlisted for the Willesden Prize, Jolt is a story about perception and ingrained prejudices that we can carry around with us in our everyday lives. Sometimes it can take a journey to a strange place to waken us into a less intransigent way of seeing the world.

©2018 James Lawless (P)2019 James Lawless Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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It was very enjoyable to listen to this exciting story and to get to know all characters. Highly recommended.

Great story and narrative

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Jolt is an entertaining and absorbing look into the lives and drama of others. Funny and definitely a gripping listen with great narration.

Well worth the listen

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It's a well written story that blends rich characters against the backdrop of a foreign country.

A tale about loss and racism

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I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

The Book

The story was an fairly interesting short about a relationship between an Irish couple who lost a daughter and their relationship has changed due to this. They go on a holiday to Turkey and experience prejudices and other ingrained beliefs about the people there and find out some things about themselves and them as a couple along the way.


The Production

The narration was clearly read but this was almost too much at times with very clipped speech making it seem overly formal and almost a staccato rhythm in places. The narration isn't always like this and sometimes it flows quite normally but when it does go like this it is a bit off putting. The character voices by contrast were good.

An ok short tale

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