Retold: Talk to every story

You read messages all day. Now read Dickens the same way. Retold lays out a whole book as a chat: every line of dialogue becomes a message with the speaker's name, and the author's narration stays between them. Nothing is rewritten, shortened or simplified — it is the complete text, in the shape you already know by heart. Then you can talk back. ASK THE CHARACTERS Tap a name and ask anything. What did you mean by that? Why did you lie to her? What are you afraid of? Characters answer in their own voice, from inside their own head, in the manner they speak in the book. THEY KNOW EXACTLY AS MUCH AS YOU DO The book past your bookmark is never sent to them. Ask on page 40 and you are talking to the character as they are on page 40: still wrong about the things they are wrong about, still keeping their secrets, their ending not yet written. It is the one conversation about a book you cannot…