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Deaf sentence
Disabilities fiction
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort and… househusband. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine-year-old father. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss. 2008.