Julia - Sandra Newman
Category: Novel
Narrator: Louise Brealey
Tags: Novel, General Fiction, Literature
A PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023, An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023, A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023, A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2023, An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwells 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smiths lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman., Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Its 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwells 1984., All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeati
