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Whit

By: Iain Banks
Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
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Summary

 A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager.
When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four-yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon...
Truth and falsehood; kinship and betrayal; 'herbal' cigarettes and compact discs - Whit is an exploration of the techno-ridden barrenness of modern Britain from a unique perspective.©1995 Iain Banks Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Fantasy
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His satire is exquisitely poised, his storytelling gripping
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I read Whit in hardback when it was first published. At the time I was a little disappointed by the story after the dark violence of Complicity. Now, years later, listening to this audiobook I can fully appreciate how good the novel is. This I believe is down to the brilliant performance and delivery of the novel. Well done!

Brilliantly delivered!

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My favourite author. Great story. Wonderful storytelling. The reader brought the characters alive. So good to hear an authentic Scottish accent.

Amazing narration!

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I always liked Iain’s books ever since my brother bought me The Wasp Factory for my birthday many years ago. I read Whit around that time too but couldn’t remember the story too well. It’s a very entertaining tale but it’s the narrator’s performance that makes this great. The voice actor can make or break an audiobook. Some really great titles are ruined by those bland, robotic American voice actors. Helen McAlpine does a fantastic job here. She deftly switches accents but her Scot’s accent gives the story its required authenticity. I could listen to her all day long.

Great performance

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The story is full of twists and intrigues and very well performed, but it is the quality of the writing that gets the fifth star.

Excellent

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Great tale weaved in detail as it meander. So far from normal, so nearly normal. The story unfolds with a familiarity that shouldn't really exist.

Normality without normalcy

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