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My Name is Mina by David Almond
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My Name is Mina

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Narrator Charlie Sanderson

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Length 4 hours 53 minutes
Language English
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There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. Then what shall I write I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line

And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, Mina's life in Mina's own words: her stories and dreams, experiences and thoughts, her scribblings and nonsense, poems and songs. Her vivid account of her vivid life.

In this stunning audio book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig.

Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.

(P) Hodder Children's Books 2011

David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Island, Bone Music and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcières (France), the Nonino International Prize, the James Kruss Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature.

David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Newcastle, the city in which he was born.

www.davidalmond.com

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Reviews

A wonderful book. It is joyous. Thank you, David Almond; I cannot remember when a book filled me with such claminosity. A skillful, affecting and impassioned book. A celebration of the richness of the everyday world and to read it is to feel uplifted. A rare and beautiful novel. A pitch-perfect prequel to Skellig. A gloriously rich, multi-layered novel. A poignant, heart-warming novel fuelled by Almond's generosity of spirit and his endorsement of childhood's individuality and quirkiness. Another gem from this award-winning author. A sensational meditation on creativity and the power of words. A must for any budding writer. Almond's chatty, informal and unique writing is different from anything you have read by him before. Almond promotes and celebrates freedom for children and their thinking in this lyrical book about growing up. A joyous celebration of what it means to be young and alive and enquiring. A truly remarkable book. A extraordinary masterpiece. One of the stand-out novels of the year. Intensely moving, this is a profoundly uplifting expression of joy, imagination and consciousness. Absolutely brilliant Expand reviews