The audio recording of The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones has been reissued as an audio download from Audible.
The fantasy teen novel was originally recorded in 2003 with David Tennant and Emilia Fox alternately reading the accounts of lead characters Nick and Roddy.
The Merlin Conspiracy
The story is narrated by two very different teenagers, who
each inhabit two extraordinarily different worlds. Arianrhod Hyde's world (or
Roddy, as she prefers to be called) is very much the world of magic, pageantry
and ritual. Not unlike Britain in King Arthur's Day, Roddy is daughter of two
Court Wizards and therefore part of the King's Progress, travelling round the
Islands of Blest and ready to take part in whatever ritual or ceremony is
required, as it occurs. Presiding over all, the most important person is the
Merlin, who is entrusted with the magical health of the Isles of Blest.
Nick Mallory's world is much more familiar - at least it
starts off being our own. But it soon transpires that Nick's not quite the
ordinary 15-year-old he seems, as he slips sideways into something he thinks is
a dream - but in fact is another world entirely. Now, Nick's been on other
worlds before (although never alone) but he's a confident type. Maybe a bit too
confident....
In Roddy's world, the current Merlin expires and a new one
takes his place. Yet something is wrong - the rituals have been upset and
nothing is going the way it should. Roddy needs help, and certain powers
indicate that Nick is to be the one to help her. And Nick is cool about helping
her - in theory...but it's a bit worrying that she seems to mistake him for a
magic-user. Their stories unfold, side-by-side, each part leading into the
next, and the Merlin Conspiracy thickens as the tales swirl around
each other - twining, meeting, and affecting each other, yet never completely
combining until the very end chapters when all is finally revealed.
The novel is available to download from the following sites:
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