Rhetoric of Roots
Livia Huntingdon-Jones
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
Isla Rhys-Jones is a woman of letters, logic, and very specific definitions. An Oxford-educated linguist living in the salt-crusted town of Bracken Cove, Maine, Isla’s life is a perfectly structured...
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Isla Rhys-Jones is a woman of letters, logic, and very specific definitions. An Oxford-educated linguist living in the salt-crusted town of Bracken Cove, Maine, Isla’s life is a perfectly structured sentence. She has her research, her tweed blazers, and her husband Frank—a mechanic who speaks in monosyllables but fixes things with the soul of a poet. But then, the "Hyperbole of Hollywood" arrives. A film crew descends to turn their "weathered" town into a cinematic metaphor, bringing with them rubber lobsters, synthetic fog, and a leading man determined to "osmose" Frank’s rugged authenticity. As the town's identity is rewritten for the screen, Isla is grappling with an unscripted edit of her own: a secret pregnancy that threatens to erase the "Academic Isla" she spent years building. When a real storm collides with the fake one, leading to a catastrophic fire at the town's historical archive, Isla must step out of the margins. In the face of a community under siege, she discovers that some things can’t be edited—and that the most important chapters are the ones we never saw coming. Will Isla let the "Mother" overwrite the "Scholar," or can she find the perfect synthesis in a town that refuses to be a footnote? Duration - 5h 26m. Author - livia huntingdon-jones. Narrator - Digital Voice Amelia E. Published Date - Sunday, 04 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 livia huntingdon-jones ©.
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Chapter 1
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Chapter Two: The Location Scout
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Chapter Three: The Dialect Coach
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Chapter Four: The Casting Call
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Chapter Five: The Aesthetic Consultant
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Chapter Six: The Leading Man
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Chapter Seven: The Shadow
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Chapter Eight: The Clause of Contingency
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Chapter Nine: The Disruption
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Chapter Ten: The Positive Sign
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Chapter Eleven: The Ellipsis
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Chapter Twelve: The Craft Service Scone
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Chapter Thirteen: The Risk Assessment
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Chapter Fourteen: The Method Goes Wrong
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Chapter Fifteen: The Dialogue Fix
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Chapter Sixteen: The Phonetic Echo
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Chapter Seventeen: The Lobster Incident
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Chapter Eighteen: The Fog Machine
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Chapter Nineteen: The Stunt Double
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Chapter Twenty: The Architecture of Facades
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Chapter Twenty-One: The Barometric Pressure Drop
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Chapter Twenty-Two: The Rain Machine
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Chapter Twenty-Three: The Disclosure
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Chapter Twenty-Four: The Hiatus
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Chapter Twenty-Five: The Syntax of Fear
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Chapter Twenty-Six: The Morphology of Morning
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Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Convergence
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Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Architecture of Combustion
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Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Mobilization of Debris
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Chapter Thirty: The Syncope
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Chapter Thirty-One: The Hierarchy of Priorities
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Chapter Thirty-Two: The Director’s Cut
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Chapter Thirty-Three: The Synthesis
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Chapter Thirty-Four: The Exodus
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Chapter Thirty-Five: The Palimpsest
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Chapter Thirty-Six: The Architecture of Nesting
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Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Manuscript
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Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Etymology of Identity
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Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Genitive of Belonging
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Chapter Forty: The Full Stop (And New Paragraph)
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