Ivon, Michael Aylwin
Ivon, Michael Aylwin
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Ivon

Author: Michael Aylwin

Narrator: Michael Aylwin

Unabridged: 9 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Michael Aylwin

Published: 08/14/2018


Synopsis

The year is 2144, and the world is powered by sport - politically and practically. Each community owes its prosperity or otherwise to the
success of its teams and athletes. A person's class is determined by their aptitude for sport. Once their useful life as an athlete has
expired, they are placed in stasis at an age predetermined by that class. But not in Wales. Separated from the rest of the world by a huge wall, the Welsh still play games for joy. They play, they carouse, they love, they die. They have fun. Of all the Welsh, the greatest sportsman is an unreconstructed genius called Ivon. When the chance arises to become the first Welshman to cross the great divide into England, he cannot resist. His parents, who were exiled from England before he was born, know what London will do to him. They are desperate to have him back. But London will not give up an asset like Ivon so easily. Ivon is a celebration of where sport has come from and a satire on where it is going. 

Reviews

Book Reviewed by Stacey on www.whisperingstories.com I’ll be completely honest, Ivon was a difficult read at the start for me. I found the first chapter hard to understand as you are thrust straight into a story about a sportsman, Dusty Noble, at the end of his cricketing career without any real info......more

This book has one of the most brilliant dystopian ideas I have seen in a long time, let alone the metaphor behind it. The language flows well and characters are engaging, it took me a while to get completely hooked by the literary surroundings, so to say, but it was well worth it. After reading this......more

Goodreads review by Karen

I love sport so my intrigue was high when starting this book. Just when you think sport is beginning to go one way in the world nowadays, then something comes along to change the direction and a whole new can of worms is opened and our perception of sports is changed again. And this is exactly what......more

IVON by Michael Aylwin is fresh, unusual, quirky, and defies being placed in any current genre as it really stands in one of its own making. Set in a future where sport reigns supreme and everyone is a cog in the wheel that makes this society function, discarded when they have served their purpose an......more