Vanessa Kirby And Arthur Darvill To Narrate Audiobook Version Of Dolly Alderton’s Second Novel ‘Good Material’
EXCLUSIVE: Actors Vanessa Kirby and Arthur Darvill (Broadchurch) have signed on to narrate the audiobook version of Good Material, the second novel from writer and journalist Dolly Alderton.
The audiobook is set for UK publication on November 2 through Penguin Random House Audio ahead of the hardback publication on November 9. Darvill stars as Andy while Kirby is Jen in the novel.
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Billed as a “sharply funny and beautifully observed” tale of heartbreak, the novel follows Andy, who loves Jen. However, Jen has stopped loving Andy and he can’t work out why. Synopsis reads: Now he is without a home, waiting for his stand-up career to take off, wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up. Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak at a time when everything he thought he knew about women and flat-sharing and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend’s side of the story.
Kirby is perhaps best known for her role as Princess Margaret in two seasons of the award-winning Netflix series The Crown, for which she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the same category. She began her career in theatre roles for director David Thacker, starting with an appearance in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, for which she received the BISA Rising Star Award. She made her television debut in the BBC series The Hour and appeared in films including Richard Curtis’s About Time, Mission Impossible, Hobbs and Shawm, and more recently, Mona Fastvold’s The World To Come. She picked up the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at Venice in 2020 for her central role in Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman. Last year, Kirby starred in Florian Zeller’s The Son and more recently starred in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.
Darvill is best known for his role as Rory Williams in Doctor Who. Other television roles include Rip Hunter in Legends of Tomorrow and Rev. Paul Coats in Broadchurch. His theatre credits include his Olivier Award-winning performance in Oklahoma!, the lead in the musical Once, and Dave in Antipodes at the National Theatre. Most recently, Arthur voiced the character Adam in the video game The Magnificent Trufflepigs.
Good Material is Alderton’s second novel and fourth book. Her previous titles are Dear Dolly, Everything I Know About Love, and Ghosts. Everything I Know About Love was adapted into a seven-part series for the BBC.
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