The Butcher's Daughter
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Narrated by:
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Harrie Dobby
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By:
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Jane E. James
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The Butcher's Daughter is a compelling psychological thriller which will appeal to fans of authors like Sheryl Browne, Nuala Ellwood and Teresa Driscoll.
When Natalie Powers returns home for the first time in 13 years, she must convince everyone she has fully recovered from the mental illness that has seen her institutionalised for most of her young life. But instead of being welcomed back, Natalie enters a baffling world of deception. In the village of Little Downey, everybody appears to harbour a mysterious secret, including her father, Frank, the village butcher, who refuses to discuss the circumstances surrounding Natalie’s mother's disappearance. But who can Natalie trust if not her own father? Especially when it becomes clear her protector and confidant, Dr Moses, is not all he appears. Meanwhile, a spate of unexplained clifftop suicides has seen the seaside resort go into decline. Are the villagers somehow involved, or is something more sinister at work?
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- edie
- 02-01-20
confusing
maybe its just me.but that was the most confusing book iv ever read..twas like the author cudnt make up her mind were it was going...also you may pick up the bloopers. i spotted two.i listened to the whole book.so disappointed.perhaps the author had one too many woke up an continued writing forgetting were she left off an what the whole thing was about...narrator very good.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- David M
- 16-11-19
Clever Idea
For most of this book I was confused, unable to work out what was going on.
Then (perhaps belatedly), I realised that was how I was supposed to feel. The author is putting the listener in the mind of Natalie Powers who has spent a good part of her life in a mental institution. Natatie is trying to separate fact from fiction. She is confused and doesn't know who to trust. She has memories, but doesn't know whether they are real or invented within her own mind. Natalie struggles to make sense of the world around her - in particular what happened to her mother and why did she die? Why will her father (Frank) not tell her about it? Why are there so many suicides in the village? Why are all the villagers slightly crazy?
By the end of the book, we are given a good idea of what was actually going on, but I was still left with a little lingering confusion.
As a warning, the book is pretty gruesome in places. Set in an isolated Welsh village, Natalie's father is a butcher (so we get graphic details of butchery), there is also animal cruelty, self-harm and worse. Maybe not a book to read late at night!
Good performance by Harrie Dobby (who is female by the way). It would have been nice if the characters had been given Welsh accents.
I've given this book 5 stars, but perhaps 4.5 stars would be closer to how I rate it. It's gripping, but perhaps not great literature.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Nicks
- 12-12-19
Um I'm still wondering about this
Had to re-start a few times as not very gripping in the beginning. But honestly I was confused throughout the book. Only at the end do you realise its very clever (I think).
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