Universality by Natasha Brown audiobook review – a sparkling multi-voiced satire
Natasha Brown’s Universality is reviewed as a sharp, multi-voiced satire about wealth, class, media and political division. Its story begins after Jake finds a gold bar at a West Yorkshire farm and uses it to attack someone during an illegal rave, setting off events that expose competing versions of the truth.
A journalist’s viral article about the stolen gold draws in disgraced banker Richard Spencer, right-wing columnist Miriam “Lenny” Leonard and anarchist squatters called The Universalists. The audiobook uses several narrators—Norma Butikofer, Anushka Chakravarti, Clare Corbett and Daniel Weyman—to reflect its shifting perspectives and make listeners question whose account is trustworthy.
- A stolen gold bar triggers a bitter culture-war satire.
- Multiple narrators strengthen the novel’s conflicting viewpoints.
- The review praises Brown’s critique of class and media.