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Damn, she's a good writer. The first two stories are superb, and I'm not sure there's a better reader alive than Adjoa Andoh.

Cell Number 1, where the handsome, dissolute son of a professor finds self respect in the most unlikely of places

Imitation, in which the wife of a wealthy Nigerian businessman weighs the comfort of her life in Philadelphia against her husband's infidelity

From the description, it is so clear Peter Judd is Boris fucking Johnson. "a loose cannon with a floppy haircut and a bicycle". And populist rightwing tendencies.

Nothing like a three-hour run to eat into a long audiobook

The author continues her inconsistent approach to mythology, mostly giving no distinction between it and actual history but occasionally dissecting likely actual meaning (as with the Indian Mahabharata) or, for the Pentateuch, explicitly giving historical weight to mythical figures such as Abraham, Moses and Samson.

The author draws little distinction between history & myth, specifically giving undue credence to the Bible. While stating it was written several hundred years later (actually about a thousand), she discusses Abraham as a historical figure, for which there is no good evidence