Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

Narrated by: Jodie Comer

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

This audiobook is narrated by Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, The Last Duel, The End We Start From), who won Best Actress in both the Tony and Olivier awards for her performance in the theatre production of Prima Facie. Her performance in the play was lauded as "infusing breath-taking emotional drama into every word" (Guardian), with "tremendous skill and improbable stamina" (New York Times). Here she returns to Tessa in this intimate and skilful performance.

From the Olivier award-winning playwright of Prima Facie Suzie Miller comes her first novel, where power, patriarchy and morality diverge.

‘She played by the rules, but the rules are broken.'

Tessa Ensler is a brilliant barrister who's forged her career in criminal defence through sheer determination. Since her days at Cambridge, she’s carefully disguised her working class roots in a male-dominated world where who you know is just as important as what you know. Driven by her belief in the right to a fair trial and a taste for victory, there’s nothing Tessa loves more than the thrill of getting her clients acquitted.

It seems like Tessa has it made when she is approached for a new job and nominated for the most prestigious award in her field. But when a date with a charismatic colleague goes horribly wrong, Tessa finds that the rules she’s always played by might not protect her, forcing her to question everything she's ever believed in…

“It has been an absolute joy to return to Tessa’s story whilst recording this audiobook. My hope is that it will reach the widest number of people, perhaps who weren’t able to see the play. I’ve personally enjoyed delving into her story again and am excited for audiences to experience this further exploration gifted to us by the wonderful Suzie Miller.” Jodie Comer

'Enthralling and sharp-witted . . . Highly recommended' Karin Slaughter

'Bold, fearless, heartbreakingly timeless. Written with skill, humour, despair and hope, Prima Facie is a deeply rewarding, absolute must read' Chris Whitaker

©2024 Suzie Miller (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

'Miller's star shines as brightly as a novelist as it does as a playwright. Prima Facie the novel gives us what novels do: the intimacy of interior life.' (Anna Funder, author of STASILAND)

Nerve wrecking, skin raw scratching, emotionally empowering.

Not only is the story artfully crafted and written with great flow. It is also delivered by a unbelievably talented actress; Jodie Comer, she received a Tony award, for the Prima Facie Play in 2023. And with her voice performance and the raw emotions in it shown. She together with the author, went on and spread the very important and very real message that the novel, the play and the audiobook renditions convey. I felt for Tessa, her situation, her career and her bravery. I felt all her emotions as if I was her. That I think is very rare in audiobooks. I am incredibly grateful for the author; Suzie Miller and her way of putting into such beautiful words, what so many of us were thinking. Something has to change. I will recommend this piece of work to everyone, with my whole heart. It is something that had to be said and something that must be acted upon. And I thank them both.

Brilliant!!

What passion, what a plot and what a performance. If you want to listen to a book that should change your view of the world then this is it.