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Narrated by:
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Vicky Hall
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By:
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Jenn Ashworth
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A haunting and otherworldly tale of the impact on one family of a guest with seemingly magical powers, who alters the course of their lives in ways neither they nor he foresee. A haunting, mysterious tale imbued with the force of myth by the award-winning author of A Kind of Intimacy.
When Annette Clifford returns to her childhood home on the edge of Morecambe Bay, she despairs: the long-empty house is crumbling, undermined by two voracious sycamores. What she doesn't realise is that she's not alone: her arrival has woken the spirits of her parents, who anxiously watch over her, longing to make amends.
Because as the past comes back to Jack and Netty, they begin to see the summer of 1963 clearly, when Netty was desperately ill and a stranger moved in. Charismatic, mercurial Timothy Richardson, with his seemingly miraculous powers of healing, who drew all their attention away from Annette.... Now they must try to draw another stranger towards her, one who can rescue her.
Blurring the boundaries between the corporeal and spirit worlds and subtly echoing the myth of Baucis and Philemon, this is an eerily beautiful, evocative and highly original novel which underlines the eternal potency of hope.
©2016 Jenn Ashworth (P)2016 Hodder & StoughtonListeners also enjoyed...
Narrated by Vicky Hall.
I went into this book knowing nothing about the story or the author, and selected it purely because it is narrated by my favourite actress, Vicky Hall.
Despite it being in a genre I'm not too familiar with, I very much enjoyed the story. The eerie darkness sucked me in, held my attention, and kept me listening, wanting to know both what was going to happen next, and how things were going to end.
In my eyes Vicky is a total star, deftly switching between spot-on accents, and delivering the requisite emotion, passion, and tenderness.
She truly was telling the story, and not just reading words from a page.
It was great to discover that this amazing visual actress is also a master storyteller! I would love to hear more novels read by her.
Congratulations to both Jenn Ashworth and Vicky Hall.
5 out of 5!
A Great Story Narrated By My Favourite Actress.
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And yes, it has ghosts in it, but I do not see it as a ghost story. Rather, they are a device to tell an extraordinary tale about ordinary people. It allows the author to give a more detailed, more intimate, more sensitive account of the characters, past and present. And, of course, they are part of the big house. The ghosts are not flies on the walls, but almost the walls themselves. They are witnesses to other people’s presents, but they are also their memories, their pasts.
There are some exquisitely subtle instances of deep affection, generosity and humanity in the novel, put together with compassion and delicacy.
The more I got into it, the more I loved this beautiful book. Do persevere with it.
Extraordinary tale about ordinary people
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