EXCLUSIVE: Audible has signed up Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love) and Erin Doherty (The Crown) to voice One other Life, the debut launch from British-American author Karla Marie Candy.
One other Life is described as a “feminist, dystopian” story that tackles the query: What occurs when one thing ostensibly good falls into the flawed arms?
The official synopsis reads: One other Life introduces readers to the controversial Exterior Womb Programme, which offers ladies with the expertise to outsource their being pregnant to a machine. Whereas numerous ladies hail this as revolutionary, others grapple with what this subversive new expertise may imply for the way forward for motherhood and, certainly, the world.
After shedding her dad and mom in a automobile accident, Lucy marries James – candy, straight, reliable, and fully not like Violet, for whom she has all the time had a crush. All Lucy craves a glittering profession as an actor, however James desires to quiet down and have a child, so once they uncover the Exterior Womb Programme, it seems like they’ll have all of it.
As she and her husband James embark on their journey, nevertheless, it turns into clear she’s not being fully sincere with him and, as an previous flame returns, every thing is thrown into jeopardy. A long time later, using exterior wombs is commonplace. However a corrupt authorities moving into energy results in this groundbreaking piece of expertise falling into the flawed arms, forcing everybody to reckon with a difficult new world and their place inside it.
“Writing my debut novel has been such a joyful expertise,” mentioned Marie Candy. “It’s been a approach for me to grapple with so many ideas, themes, and world points. A method of articulating so many fears and goals. Creating the coming-of-age tales of those characters over the previous couple of years has additionally been a giant a part of my very own coming-of-age. I’m so grateful that Audible may see this novel’s potential and dealing with them since they got here on board has been nothing in need of fantastic.”
Robin Morgan-Bentley, Director of Scripted Drama and Authentic Books at Audible acquired World English rights from Ben Dunn at DunnFogg.
