One of the UK’s most exciting screenwriters, Karla Marie Sweet is a Brit List nominated British-American actor and writer with credits including BBC, Netflix and Hulu who has written her debut novel Another Life for Audible Original.
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For fans of Margaret Attwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Naomi Alderman’s The Power, Another Life is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing the limits of own world in bold and surprising ways.
Another Life will be narrated by British actors Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love) and Erin Doherty (The Crown).
A feminist, dystopian page turner, Another Life introduces readers to the controversial External Womb Programme, which provides women with the technology to outsource their pregnancy to a machine. While countless women hail this as revolutionary, others grapple with what this subversive new technology might mean for the future of motherhood and, indeed, the world.
After losing her parents in a car accident, Lucy marries James – sweet, straight, dependable, and completely unlike her charismatic, hard-to-pin-down ex Violet. All Lucy craves a glittering career as an actor, but James wants to settle down and have a baby, so when they discover the External Womb Programme, it looks like they can have it all.
But a corrupt government stepping into power for the first time leads to this groundbreaking piece of technology falling into the wrong hands, forcing everyone to reckon with a challenging new world and their place within it.
Karla Marie Sweet, author of Another Life and Brit List 2023 writer, said “Writing my debut novel has been such a joyful experience. It’s been a way for me to grapple with so many concepts, themes and world issues. A means of articulating so many fears and dreams. Developing the coming-of-age stories of these characters over the last few years has also been a big part of my own coming of age. I’m so grateful that Audible could see this novel’s potential and working with them since they came on board has been nothing short of wonderful.”
Karla Marie Sweet is a British-American actor, screenwriter, novelist and dramaturg born and based in Manchester, UK. Recent acting credits include Black Dog and season 2 of Hulu’s No Man’s Land. As a writer, her theatre credits include Cheetham Hill (for the Royal Exchange), This Little Relic (BBC Radio 3 and the Belgrade Theatre) and Othello (Watermill Theatre), a re-versioning The Guardian and WhatsOnStage awarded four stars each, calling it a “remarkable” adaptation that “moves with the pace of a thriller.”
Karla also has multiple TV writing credits to her name, with her special unconscious bias episode of Hollyoaks hailed the show’s “best ever episode” by the news media and lauded by fans and critics alike. The episode went on to be the cornerstone of the show’s winning submission for Best Continuing Drama at the 2022 Royal Television Society Awards. Karla’s been in the writersroom for several shows including Get Even (BBC/Netflix), Sexy Beast (Paramount+) and a 1990s set show about pirate radio, helmed by Ashley Walters.
She is currently part of the 2023/24 Brit List cohort after gaining 13 industry nominations for her comedy-drama pilot DaSilva & Sharp.
Get your copy from the 19th September exclusively on http://audible.co.uk/
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