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Narrator

Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows is a British actor with extensive theatre, film and TV credits. He is a frequent contributor to plays, musicals, narrations and readings for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Mark has narrated around 80 audiobook titles and was a nominee for the 2013 Audible Narrator of the Year award. He also provided the voice of the ship’s computer in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

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Title:

The Invisible Mile (MP3)

Written by:

David Coventry 

Read by:

Mark Meadows 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

11 hours 17 minutes 

MP3 size:

467 MB 

Published:

November 28 2016 

Available Date:

November 28 2016 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781509850594 

Genres:

Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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Based on a true story The Invisible Mile tells the poignant story of five Australian and New Zealand cyclists who in 1928 formed the first English-speaking team to ride in the Tour de France.

They were gallant, under-resourced and badly outnumbered but taken deep to the heart by the French nation. The novel describes in a wonderful poetic and visceral voice what it was like to ride in this race (the chaos, danger and rivalries), the extraordinary lengths to which the riders pushed themselves, suffering horrific injuries, riding through the night in pitch dark, and the ways they staved off the pain, through camaraderie, through sexual conquest, through drink, and through drugs (cocaine for energy, opium for pain). Added to the team is the fictional narrator who is cycling towards his demons in a northern France still scarred by the First World War. His brother was a fighter pilot damaged by his experiences in France, his sister has died, and this self-imposed test of endurance is slowly and painfully bringing him to his final, invisible mile where memory eventually comes to collide with the past.