Clade - James Bradley
Category: Novel
Narrator: Ian Bliss
Tags: Novel, Sci-Fi, Adults, Literature
5h54m, A provocative, urgent audiobook about time, family and how a changing planet might change our lives, from James Bradley, acclaimed author of The Resurrectionist and editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean., Compelling, challenging and resilient, over ten beautifully contained chapters, Clade canvasses three generations from the very near future to late this century. Central to the novel is the family of Adam, a scientist, and his wife Ellie, an artist., Clade opens with them wanting a child and Adam in a quandary about the wisdom of this. Their daughter proves to be an elusive little girl and then a troubled teenager, and by now cracks have appeared in her parents marriage. Their grandson is in turn a troubled boy, but when his character reappears as an adult hes an astronomer, one set to discover something astounding in the universe., With great skill James Bradley shifts us subtly forward through the decades, through disasters and plagues, miraculous small moments and acts of
