Audible, a specialistin spoken-word entertainment, has announced that British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love) has been cast alongside Erin Doherty (The Crown) to star in Another Life, the debut release from 2023 Brit List writer, Karla Marie Sweet.

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 first ever novel Another Life for Audible.  A feminist, dystopian page turner Another Life tackles a freighted question: What happens when something ostensibly good falls into the wrong hands?

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. 

As she and her husband James embark on their journey, however, it becomes clear she’s not being entirely honest with him and, as her old flame returns, everything is thrown into jeopardy. Decades later, the use of external wombs is commonplace. But a corrupt government stepping into power 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.”

Robin Morgan-Bentley, Director of Scripted Drama and Original Books at Audible acquired Global English rights from Ben Dunn at DunnFogg. 

Another Life is available to pre-order now and will be exclusively available on Audible on September 19^th, 2024

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