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Narrating audiobooks is an art – but sometimes the book isn’t worthy of the voice, says Stephen Bush

One of the recurring features of lockdown has been being confronted by my own instances of good fortune. I knew what many of them were: I am still in work, I have young parents, I don’t have children, I can work from home. But I’ve been confronted by a privilege I have lost, but took for granted: the freedom to choose what I wanted to read. The world of audiobooks is very different. I wanted to explore the previous work of Bernardine Evaristo: I can’t, because only her latest, Booker-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other is available. I planned to spend my time in queues – lockdown seems to involve a seemingly endless supply of those – listening to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies before starting on The Mirror &…

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The Big Issue United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, 08-06-20

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