First Light
by Julie Evans
Genre: Drama/Romance
Written by Julie Evans and narrated by Kristin Atherton
This audio story Copyright ©2020 by Julie Evans
A BIBLIOPHONE 1000 Words Heard for INARA competition winner!
This historical story describes the last minutes of a prisoner on death row as he is taken from his cell to the hanging yard. As he walks to his execution, the love story of how he came to be in this situation is revealed. At the same time, his lover, some distance away, opens a window onto the autumn morning.
about the author
Julie Evans is a writer from Puttenham, a village just outside Guildford. After reading History at Oxford and a career in Human Resources, she spent some years ‘just being Mum’ to her three (now grown-up) children, in Surrey and in Singapore. Since taking up writing three years ago, she has won several competitions - the Frome and Farnham competitions for short stories and the Winchester Festival competition for flash fiction - and has been placed and shortlisted in several others, including the Historical Writer’s Association’s annual prize. Judge’s comments highlight the emotional intensity, colour and originality in her work. She is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Surrey.
Julie’s passion for stories which are set in the past have been inspired by her academic study, by her interest in genealogy and by the literature, artwork and diaries of the Victorian era. She finds the ‘clues’ to understanding the everyday lives of our ancestors fascinating - in landscape, buildings, objects, documentation and artwork. She is most interested in exploring the ways that past lives interact with our lives in the present and is always keen in her writing to evoke a strong sense of place as well as era.
At home, Julie’s enjoys walking her dog, Mouse, in the Surrey countryside, which provides a great deal of inspiration. She describes herself as ‘a winter person, in love with cold air, forests and firelight.’
Her Twitter Handle is @Abeljules
about the narrator
Kristin is a Yorkshire-born, half-German actress, and a graduate of LAMDA. Her theatre credits include roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Sheffield Crucible, West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Orange Tree Theatre and several title roles for pioneering theatre company Shared Experience. Her screen credits include series regular Vix Spark in Waterloo Road, Doctors, Shakespeare and Hathaway, and Rockets Island (all for the BBC). Her audio work covers video-games, both commercial and corporate advertising, and she has narrated over 70 audiobooks titles, including the award-winning 'The Silence of the Girls', by Pat Barker.
Kristin on Twitter: @KristinAtherton
Kristin Atherton