The Salt Road

Name: The Salt Road
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jane Johnson
ISBN: 9798212221115

Author: Jane Johnson

Narrator: Fiona Hardingham, Lameece Issaq

Unabridged: 15 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/27/2023

Categories: Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical, Fantasy

Synopsis

From the author of The Tenth Gift comes another story of exotic, foreign lands, entwining story lines spanning generations, and the quests to overcome love lost."My dear Isabelle, in the attic you will find a box with your name on it."Isabelle’s estranged archeologist father dies, leaving her a puzzle. In a box she finds some papers and a mysterious African amulet—but their connection to her remains unclear until she embarks on a trip to Morocco to discover how the amulet came into her father’s possession.When the amulet is damaged and Isabelle almost killed in an accident, she fears her curiosity has gotten the better of her. But Taib, her rescuer, knows the dunes and their peoples and offers to help uncover the amulet’s extraordinary history, involving Tin Hinan—She of the Tents—who made a legendary crossing of the desert, and her beautiful descendant Mariata.Across years and over hot, shifting sands, tracking the Salt Road, the stories of Isabelle and Taib, Mariata and her lover, become entangled with that of the lost amulet. It is a tale of souls wounded by history and of love blossoming on barren ground.

About Jane Johnson

Jane Johnson is a novelist, historian, and publisher. She has written for both adults and children, including the bestselling novel The Tenth Gift.

About Fiona Hardingham

Fiona Hardingham is a British-born actress, singer, voice-over artist, and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. On stage, she appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in her comedic one-woman show The Dark Show. She has also starred in the dark-comedy short film The Ballerino. She earned a BA honors degree in performing arts from Middlesex University, London, and also studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

About Lameece Issaq

Lameece Issaq is an actor, voice-over actor, playwright, screenwriter, and Founding Artistic Director of Obie-winning Noor Theatre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on August 16, 2024

The Salt Road is billed as a romance, and it may well be that readers who like romance writing will enjoy the love story set out across two separate timelines in this book. I wouldn't classify The Salt Road as a romance. I don't read romance as a genre. For me it's an adventure, set in an exotic loc......more

Goodreads review by Monica on August 21, 2024

3.5 Stars- This book was very informative about a culture that I knew nothing about. Plus the setting was extraordinary. I think I have only ever read one other book set in Morocco. The story tells about two different women and their lives. Both women had some extraordinary events happen in their li......more

Goodreads review by Robin on January 29, 2014

This book does not want to be put into a single category. But if you must, you may file it under mystery, romance, adventure or travelogue. To me, it's just a great double weave of two stories of two very different characters, set against the same backdrop. NO spoilers!......more

Goodreads review by Kaśyap on July 28, 2015

A beautifully written story. Set in North Africa, there are two story lines here following two women, which are set about 30 to 40 years apart from each other but they might as well have been set centuries apart. Mariata is a remarkable character creation. Her story is full of passion and strength a......more

Goodreads review by Sue on February 11, 2021

The cryptic letter to Isabella from her late father had me intrigued and I was excited about reading further but the story very quickly moved in a different direction to what I was expecting. Desert stories set in Africa (or anywhere in the world) are just not my thing (or so I thought) and it seeme......more

Quotes

“The Salt Road, like all powerful stories, is about change…For readers looking to experience a shifting, disappearing world and to be introduced to an exotic culture with evocative descriptions, The Salt Road is an exhilarating ride.” Globe and Mail (Toronto)

“Jane Johnson re-works her irresistible cross-cultural magic…in The Salt Road.” More magazine

“A beautifully crafted story that paints a vivid picture and captures the imagination…[The] reader can see the colors of sunsets, feel the grittiness of the sand, taste the spices in the bazaar, and smell the camel hair blankets in the goatskin tents.” Women’s Post