Jason Stenger asked Madeline Miller:

I just finished the audiobook of Circe and was absolutely enthralled throughout. Your storytelling is amazing and the characters are so vivid. On top of that I felt Perdita Weeks did an incredible job bringing a voice to Circe and real life to an already moving story. Did you have any input on who would narrate this book and either way do you feel she captured the voice you were looking for?

Madeline Miller Hello Jason, and thank you for writing. I'm thrilled that you liked the audiobook. I did have input--I actually spent many (many) hours listening to samples of readers, trying to imagine them as Circe. The tricky thing is that you don't get to audition the voice actors, and hear them read your work, you just have to take a leap of faith based on what they've done in the past. It was definitely a test of my directing/casting skills! Perdita emerged as my clear favorite, and I was so happy when she agreed. I've heard she did an absolutely phenomenal job. (I'm going to confess here that I've only listened to bits of Perdita's narration--all of which I thought were wonderful--because it's too strange for me to hear Circe, who has been talking in my head for seven years, in someone else's voice--even when they are doing a terrific job! The perils of writing first person narratives.)

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