Nobody's Empire
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Narrated by:
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Stuart Murdoch
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By:
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Stuart Murdoch
About this listen
It's the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen - music loving romantic - has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease that has robbed him of any prospects of work, a social life or independent living. Meeting fellow strugglers, who the world seems to care less and less for, they form their own support group and try to get by as cheaply and as painlessly as possible.
Finding that he has the ability to write songs, albeit in a slow and fledgling way, Stephen wakes to the possibility of a spiritual life beyond the everyday, and feels a calling for someplace else. Leaving Glasgow in search of a cure in the mythic warmth of California, Stephen and his friend Richard float between hostels, sofas, and park benches. Could the trip really offer them both a new-world reinvention?
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- J G
- 30-11-24
Very straightforward but lyrical writing.
A wonderfully straightforward and candid, writing style, perfectly read by the author. I very much enjoyed it.
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- Dirty sticky book
- 14-10-24
Write a song I’ll sing along!
Wow. This is the most beautifully written book. Stuart is the most evocative story teller as his music shows, and it is a delight to find that translates into the written form. Read in his own voice the accent and tones invite you into his inner world and it is just as magical as his music. There are also two songs buried in the audio - real treasure.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-11-24
Enthralling
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is one of my favourite albums, it’s was released at the height of my adolescence and provided me with a way of hearing the way I felt when my own words would no suffice. Shortly after that, when I had just turned 17 I had a series of bleeds on the brain leaving me without any motor function for almost a year until I started a rehabilitation program. That album was a huge part of my recovery and also my reconciliation with what I had begun to accept My own experiences with extreme fatigue were only exacerbated by this and
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- Sheepy Girl
- 30-10-24
engaging, funny and inspiring
thank you Stuart for writing so candidly about ME and bringing it out of the shadows. I loved the book in general as well
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