Details:
- author: Tim Pears
- full title: Run to the Western Shore
- narrator: Ciaran Saward
- genre: historical fiction
- topics: #romanempire, #unusualromance
- publisher: Bolinda Audio
- publish date: 2 Nov 2023
- timing: 4:53:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
He could hear the barbarians coming from a long way off, a discordant cacophony. Tuneless trumpets blaring, drums thumping all out of rhythm. He could hear them splashing across the river at the horse ford, Hen Domen, and he could hear them coming up from the ford. Then one after another the drums and trumpets stopped. It was as if a signal for them to cease the racket had been given but each drummer and trumpeter only noticed the order at random. A raucous rabble.
He heard the scuff and scumble of the horses’ hooves on the dry turf now, the clinking of harness. Then he saw them coming up from the river, at first only the tips of their spears over the brow of the slope, then the plumes on their helmets, and gradually their forms entire, horses and riders, rising.
My Thoughts:
Run to the Western Shore is a beautifully narrated story about Olwen and Quintus.
Britain, AD 75. Olwen is a fierce warrior. Her father gave her away for marriage as part of a peace treaty. Quintus is a Roman slave, far from home. Olwen decides to run away and takes Quintus with her. A tense story about a young couple that, at first glance, don’t have anything in common. On the journey, they see many wonders of nature. Especially Quintus observes them with fascination. Along the way, they visit a druid and his apprentice. They also meet an unusual couple who live in the forest.
I didn’t know what to expect, but was drawn to the beautiful cover. But I’m glad I gave this audiobook a chance because this historical fiction novel charmed me with its beautiful prose and narration.
About the Author:
Born in 1956, Tim Pears grew up in Devon and left school at sixteen. He worked in a wide variety of unskilled jobs: trainee welder, assistant librarian, trainee reporter, archaeological worker, fruit picker, nursing assistant in a psychiatric ward, groundsman in a hotel & caravan park, fencer, driver, sorter of mail, builder, painter & decorator, night porter, community video maker and art gallery manager in Devon, Wales, France, Norfolk and Oxford.Always he was writing, and in time making short films. He took the Directing course at the National Film and Television School, graduating in the same month that his first novel, In the Place of Fallen Leaves, was published, in 1993.
About the Narrator:
Ciaran Saward is a London-based voiceover artist who loves discovering new things.
From small businesses and indie video games, to big publishers like William Collins and big authors like Wilbur Smith, he's worked with a range of clients to get their stories heard.
