Blood Book - Kim de l’Horizon, Jamie Lee Searle (Translator)

Category: General Fiction, LGBT
Language: English
Keywords: Feminism Queer Transgender

Written by Kim de l’Horizon, Jamie Lee Searle (Translator)
Read by Sara Dunham
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

WINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JÜRGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE

‘An exquisite inquiry into what it means to be an individual in a body, a family, a society, with all the attendant misery, humour, joy and enduring mystery’
Krystelle Bamford, author of Idle Grounds

As their grandmother slides into dementia, an unnamed narrator begins to ask questions - to fill in the gaps, to resist the silence that shrouds their family. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past, winding back through generations. This matrilineal line leads toward nature, witchcraft, freedom. Could this be where they belong?

What follows is an astounding quest for liberation - from generational trauma, class identity, the limits of language. It’s a search for other forms of knowledge and traditions, other ways of becoming. Bold and expansive, Blood Book is an unforgettable reckoning with the past, and a mesmerising exploration of who we are.

Published in the US as Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
Release date: 08-28-25