Length3h 3m
About this audiobook
Orla lives on a small British island where the bus runs on time, the wind never rests, and the future loads at one bar.
Every weekday she boards Route One.
Every weekday she plans escape.
Every weekday she stays.
Eesterbay runs on ritual. Gordon drives by instinct. Valerie commands the harbour café. Mr Preece distrusts turbines. The sheep lift their heads at the same bend.
Until the bend disappears.
One morning the road barrels straight over open Atlantic and the bus does not brake.
Then reality slips its moorings.
Signals spike. Thoughts bleed. A stone figure vibrates on the ridge. The island tilts. Boats turn to bread. A hedgehog adopts fierce views on par. Corporate visitors flee in polished cars, unknowingly exporting the anomaly.
As Orla reaches for a bigger horizon and Gordon faces a licence review that could unmake him, Eesterbay erupts into a joyful, impossible escalation.
Some places expand.
Some uproot.
Some were never parked at all.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Humor
Length3 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PROLOGUE: THE CEPHALOPODS LEDGER
2CHAPTER ONE
3CHAPTER TWO
4CHAPTER THREE
5CHAPTER FOUR: THE UN-SIMPLE BEND
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6CHAPTER FIVE: THE LOUD SILENCE OF THE TOWN HALL
7CHAPTER SIX: THE GREAT STOCK-BOAT TOAST-A-THON
8CHAPTER SEVEN: THE CONFESSION AND THE CLOVEN HOOF
9CHAPTER EIGHT: THE SIX-HOLE SLUMP
10CHAPTER NINE: THE SHED-HOUSE SHOWDOWN
11CHAPTER TEN: THE PURPLE PARASITE
12CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE PENTHOUSE PANDEMIC
13CHAPTER TWELVE: THE LOBSTER’S GAMBIT
14CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE CRUST OF THE MATTER
15CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE GARDEN-HOSE GALAXY
16CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE CAFFEINE CONNECT-IFICATION
17CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE SANITY SYNDROME
18CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: THE WESTMINSTER WOBBLE
19CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE KERNEL CRASH (USR 555)
20CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE 1984 BUFFER
21CHAPTER TWENTY: THE BATTLE OF THE BUNKERS
22CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE RADIANT ROUTE
23CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: THE CHOREOGRAPHED CABBAGE
24CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: THE ARTISANAL AFTERSHOCK
25CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: THE TAX-HEDGE TANGENTIAL
26CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: THE AUDIT-BATTLE OF THREADNEEDLE STREET
27CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: THE VAULT OF LOST MEMORIES
28CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: THE BIG VOID STAMP
29CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: THE MORNING AFTER THE MAGIC
30CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: THE PICNIC AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
31CHAPTER THIRTY: THE POSTMAN’S PERIL
32CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: THE LAST BUS HOME
33CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: THE MIDNIGHT TEA
34CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: THE STEADY RETURN
35CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: THE BALLAD OF BRISTLE-BACK
36CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: CLIVE’S CORPORATE CLOUDS
37CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: THE TRIO OF THE TARTAN RUG
38The Collective Processing Power
39The Wonky One’s Existential Crisis
40The Philosophy of the Wall
41The Great Grass-Refresh
42 THE QUARRY’S SILENCE
43Copyright
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