Oh, goodness, The Dark is Rising! That series owned my soul when I was little. I haunted the grade school library, asking the librarians if the fifth book had come in yet. No internet in those days, and I had no idea what resources there were to find books not yet published: all I had to go on was the blurb on the back of The Grey King saying, "the last book in this series will be Silver On the Tree."

I can imagine how wrong that narrator's voice must be. Audible.com's narrator is Alex Jennings (male), who is at least British: would that help any? Or would it still be just WRONG?

I remember the poetry in that series almost as well as I remember the inscription from the One Ring. "Though grim from the grey king shadows fall, yet singing the golden harp shall guide to break their sleep and bid them ride." happy sigh