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Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
I'm listening to Mrs Dalloway. I had got a cheap secondhand CD version. Though the narrator is listed as Virginia Leishman, when I began listening I realised the voice was Lisette Lecat, which is one of my favourite narrators and I was so excited. I thought this must be an alias of hers. The excitement was short-lived however, as she only did the introduction. The actual narrator was okay but wasn't my favourite, so I was tempted instead to go with an Audible version I listened to a sample of- the one with actress Juliet Stevenson.
I'm a short ways in and very happy I did go with the Stevenson. She is incredible with the different voices and characters and accents (Scottish, Irish and Italian so far in addition to her normal English accent), and this is even more noticeable since the narrative switches to various characters' perspectives, and she switches to their accents for narration in their perspective, not only the dialogue. It's impressive.
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