Rhetoric of Roots
Livia Huntingdon-Jones
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
Isla Rhys-Jones is a woman of letters, logic, and very specific definitions. An Oxford-educated linguist living in the salt-crusted town of Bracken Cove, Maine, Isla’s life is a perfectly structured...
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Isla Rhys-Jones is a woman of letters, logic, and very specific definitions. An Oxford-educated linguist living in the salt-crusted town of Bracken Cove, Maine, Isla’s life is a perfectly structured sentence. She has her research, her tweed blazers, and her husband Frank—a mechanic who speaks in monosyllables but fixes things with the soul of a poet. But then, the "Hyperbole of Hollywood" arrives. A film crew descends to turn their "weathered" town into a cinematic metaphor, bringing with them rubber lobsters, synthetic fog, and a leading man determined to "osmose" Frank’s rugged authenticity. As the town's identity is rewritten for the screen, Isla is grappling with an unscripted edit of her own: a secret pregnancy that threatens to erase the "Academic Isla" she spent years building. When a real storm collides with the fake one, leading to a catastrophic fire at the town's historical archive, Isla must step out of the margins. In the face of a community under siege, she discovers that some things can’t be edited—and that the most important chapters are the ones we never saw coming. Will Isla let the "Mother" overwrite the "Scholar," or can she find the perfect synthesis in a town that refuses to be a footnote? Duration - 5h 26m. Author - livia huntingdon-jones. Narrator - Digital Voice Amelia E. Published Date - Sunday, 04 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 livia huntingdon-jones ©.
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Chapter 1
Duration:00:08:44
Chapter Two: The Location Scout
Duration:00:11:15
Chapter Three: The Dialect Coach
Duration:00:09:34
Chapter Four: The Casting Call
Duration:00:08:40
Chapter Five: The Aesthetic Consultant
Duration:00:08:53
Chapter Six: The Leading Man
Duration:00:08:47
Chapter Seven: The Shadow
Duration:00:09:02
Chapter Eight: The Clause of Contingency
Duration:00:08:37
Chapter Nine: The Disruption
Duration:00:07:39
Chapter Ten: The Positive Sign
Duration:00:06:43
Chapter Eleven: The Ellipsis
Duration:00:07:53
Chapter Twelve: The Craft Service Scone
Duration:00:08:20
Chapter Thirteen: The Risk Assessment
Duration:00:09:24
Chapter Fourteen: The Method Goes Wrong
Duration:00:09:44
Chapter Fifteen: The Dialogue Fix
Duration:00:08:19
Chapter Sixteen: The Phonetic Echo
Duration:00:07:17
Chapter Seventeen: The Lobster Incident
Duration:00:09:56
Chapter Eighteen: The Fog Machine
Duration:00:08:18
Chapter Nineteen: The Stunt Double
Duration:00:08:28
Chapter Twenty: The Architecture of Facades
Duration:00:08:11
Chapter Twenty-One: The Barometric Pressure Drop
Duration:00:08:15
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Rain Machine
Duration:00:08:36
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Disclosure
Duration:00:07:58
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Hiatus
Duration:00:08:50
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Syntax of Fear
Duration:00:07:57
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Morphology of Morning
Duration:00:07:08
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Convergence
Duration:00:07:10
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Architecture of Combustion
Duration:00:08:50
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Mobilization of Debris
Duration:00:08:59
Chapter Thirty: The Syncope
Duration:00:07:41
Chapter Thirty-One: The Hierarchy of Priorities
Duration:00:07:55
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Director’s Cut
Duration:00:08:01
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Synthesis
Duration:00:07:23
Chapter Thirty-Four: The Exodus
Duration:00:07:26
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Palimpsest
Duration:00:07:46
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Architecture of Nesting
Duration:00:06:47
Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Manuscript
Duration:00:06:04
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Etymology of Identity
Duration:00:07:36
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Genitive of Belonging
Duration:00:06:43
Chapter Forty: The Full Stop (And New Paragraph)
Duration:00:06:04