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Listen to Normal People

A short excerpt from Normal People by Sally Rooney, narrated by Camille. Try other narrators below, then bring your own DRM-free copy to hear the whole book.
Narrated by
Camille
Young, British female with a friendly and helpful tone, conveying confidence and efficiency.
Right, Connell says. Marianne did pretty good too. Can we go? Lorraine pauses in the untying of her apron. I didn’t realise we were in a rush, she says. He puts his hands in his pockets and suppresses an irritable sigh, but suppresses it with an audible intake of breath, so that it still sounds like a sigh.

About this sample

Sally Rooney writes dialogue without quotation marks; the narration has to carry who is speaking. Camille’s natural British cadence keeps Connell and Lorraine distinct.
The excerpt is the book’s opening passage, a few sentences long, generated with the same narration pipeline the app uses for whole books. Every narrator you can pick above is available for your own files, in this and 40+ other languages.

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