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Agnes by Judy King
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Agnes

A childhood betrayed and reclaimed

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Narrator Lisa Armytage

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Length 13 hours 15 minutes
Language English
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After a 30-year absence Agnes is returning to Australia, the country of her birth, at the request of her aging, narcissistic mother. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy she now entertains a hope that burning questions will be answered, haunting mysteries solved, and buried memories encouraged into the light. Something has blighted her life since childhood. Something has cast a long shadow over her existence, affecting her ability to grasp at life fully, to develop sustained relationships and to appreciate her own sense of self-worth. In a leafy suburb of Sydney, a chance meeting in front of her early childhood home resurrects memories of a traumatic event. This represents the moment young Agnes starts to realise, and repress, feelings of confusion, cruelty and alienation from those who should love her the most. Agnes - A childhood betrayed and reclaimed is the revelatory, true account of one woman's determination to grapple with - and heal - the ills that have beset her past.

As the missing pieces of the family puzzle gradually fall into place this brave woman's search for the truth is vindicated. Decades of mental health challenges, from amnesia to acquired dyslexia to self-limiting thoughts are ultimately overcome, and an irrepressible spirit released.

Judy King grew up in Sydney Australia. After a troubled beginning, she emerged in the nineteen sixties to establish a successful Real Estate and property development business in Paddington. Selling up to travel the world, she settled with her husband for a year in London, where she divided her time between working in an antique shop in Kingยดs Road selling antique scientific instruments and attending an art school in Lambeth. On the strength of her art work in London, she was accepted back in Sydney into a two year ceramics course at the Sydney College of the Arts. More recently she has divided her time between making art and renovating old houses in Mallorca. She currently lives in Soller in an old stone house she renovated with an orchard behind. A walker all her life, her greatest joy is to follow the donkey paths up into the mountains that surround the valley she lives in below.

Lisa Armytage is an experienced actor in film, tv and theatre, and an established audiobook narrator. After a season with the National Youth Theatre, she trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, soon afterwards emigrating to Australia. She is best known as Dr Beverley Marshall in the iconic Aussie soap, โ€˜Neighboursโ€™, and the lead female role in the Australian romantic movie โ€˜Cool Changeโ€™. Also in Australia, Lisa was a main cast member in the TV mini-series โ€˜The Lancaster-Miller Affairโ€™ and โ€˜Miraculous Mellopsโ€™ and took guest roles in โ€˜โ€™Cop Shopโ€™, โ€˜Cell Block Hโ€™, โ€˜The Flying Doctorsโ€™, โ€˜Police Rescue 2โ€™, โ€˜A Country Practiceโ€™, โ€˜Sky Trackersโ€™, โ€˜Heartbreak Highโ€™ and โ€˜All Saintsโ€™. Since returning to the U.K in 2003 Lisa returned to working in theatre before narrating a wide range of audiobook genres. She has recently completed her third audiobook in The Midlife Trilogy, (โ€˜A Midlife Gambleโ€™), and voiced roles in animations and audio dramas, of which โ€˜Murder in the Familyโ€™ by internationally recognised crime writer, Cara Hunter, is the latest.

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