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Innocent Blood
- Narrated by: Kaite Scarfe
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
Innocent Blood is a standalone thriller and chilling mystery from P.D. James, the best-selling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.
Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts.
Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity and the meaning of life.
P. D. James was a best-selling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980),Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).
James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy, and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983, and created a life peer in 1991.
In 1997 she was elected president of the Society of Authors,and stood down from this role in 2013.
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- Julia J
- 16-08-22
Another well written and well constructed story
As usual James brings intelligent writing and an unexpected ending. A good listen with great narration
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- rugina
- 15-02-23
Very gripping story
Katie Scarfe brings it to life excellently! P.D. James is a imaginative and complex story teller.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-23
A page turner
Gripping story, a little different to the usual story. No central detective involved. I wanted to know what happened in the end, the reading was especially good.
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- Caroline H.
- 04-04-24
Descriptions, story, and characterisation - fantastic!
Phillipa was such a complex fascinating person. I love the literary skill and use of metaphors and description of a time in London when I was a child.
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-07-22
interesting and enjoyable book
But the leading character was so unlikable ! i didn’t care what happened to her 🤷♀️ interesting topic and well read.
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- Red_Girl
- 23-12-22
Gave up halfway through
I love James's writing, even given her major flaw, which is to make every character philosophically intelligent and middle-class, with few distinctive idiolects. However, I gave up on this one halfway through. It was not only improbable in its central relationship but so depressing in its tawdriness.
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- Trixie
- 18-09-17
Intelligent and riveting story
This book kept me awake until the early hours as I couldn't bear to turn it off! Quite a different type of story from the usual P D James fare and hasn't dated (apart from the rents in London), although written in 1980.
Actually, I didn't like any of the characters- especially the principal, Philippa, a real cold fish - so it's a tribute to the quality of the writing that I was riveted by their fate.
The narrator is simply excellent in an understated way that fits the style of the novel to perfection. It's a complex story, told from various points of view, about dreadful past acts, revenge and deceit (I told you I didn't like them) but also forgiveness and hope.
An original book and one I thoroughly recommend to anyone who enjoys a well-plotted absorbing psychological novel.
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- jane mathews
- 11-12-22
Great story
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to another of James. She is an amazing writer. Such very small details are so lovely.
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- Shopaholic
- 04-12-16
INNOCENT BLOOD
Listening to this audio book it in made me think about the all the adopted children and if they thought anything like this girl.
it was an intriguing book with some amazing twists
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- Maria2702
- 24-10-17
Disappointing!
Firstly, I'm a great PDJames fan. I've read and re-read the Dalglish and Grey books but I couldn't read all the way through this, I just found the main character too irritating. Admittedly she was an adolescent but she was so self-obsessed and naive I wanted to slap her! I confess I did something never done before and skipped the last third of the book just 'peeking' at the last few chapters to see how things were resolved, hurriedly I felt!
To be fair the narrator was better than competent, I couldn't give her four stars but definitely 3.75.
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