Listen to an extract from the Booker Prize winning Rites of Passage originally read by William Golding in 1989 and re-mastered in 2022.

Rites of Passage by William Golding – Audio Extract

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Rites of Passage by William Golding – Audio Extract

Rites of Passage by William Golding – Audio Extract