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Uma and the Answer to Absolutely Everything
- Narrator
- Taj Atwal
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publish Date
- 21 January 2021
- Run Time
- 4 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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Uma Gnuderson has a world full of questions: How can I save my home from being sold? Will my dad ever start talking again? And how do alpacas get drunk? But since her mum died, Uma's life has been short on answers.
Until one day she finds a mysterious Bluetooth earpiece, and starts to ask it questions. And it answers them. All of them. It knows everything, from the capital of Mongolia to the colour of her headteacher's underpants.
The earpiece is actually an incredible high-tech artificial intelligence called Athena. Through Athena, Uma suddenly has the answer to every question she can imagine - and she's going to use them to save her home and her father. But the shadowy corporation who lost Athena are looking for her - and will stop at nothing to get her back...
Praise for Charlie Changes Into a Chicken:
'Belly-busting hilarity' The Guardian
'The modern masterpiece . . . this savvy, comic tale ticks every box' The Daily Telegraph
'The best kind of silly' The Observer
'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Mail on Sunday
© Sam Copeland 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Fresh and funny . . . truly cheering entertainment
Sunday Times
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This fast paced adventure is full of warmth and wit
Sunday Express
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I loved Uma - utterly brilliant
Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl
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This warm-hearted adventure is packed with silliness and madcap antics
S Magazine
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Details
- Author
- Sam Copeland, illustrated by Sarah Horne
- Narrator
- Taj Atwal
- Duration
- 4 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 January 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241510704
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Synopsis
Brought to you by Puffin.Uma Gnuderson has a world full of questions: How can I save my home from being sold? Will my dad ever start talking again? And how do alpacas get drunk? But since her mum died, Uma's life has been short on answers. Until one day she finds a mysterious Bluetooth earpiece, and starts to ask it questions. And it answers them. All of them. It knows everything, from the capital of Mongolia to the colour of her headteacher's underpants. The earpiece is actually an incredible high-tech artificial intelligence called Athena. Through Athena, Uma suddenly has the answer to every question she can imagine - and she's going to use them to save her home and her father. But the shadowy corporation who lost Athena are looking for her - and will stop at nothing to get her back...Praise for Charlie Changes Into a Chicken:'Belly-busting hilarity' The Guardian'The modern masterpiece . . . this savvy, comic tale ticks every box' The Daily Telegraph'The best kind of silly' The Observer'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Mail on Sunday© Sam Copeland 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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