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The Silent Touch of Shadows

By: Christina Courtenay
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
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Professional genealogist Melissa Grantham receives an invitation to visit her family's ancestral home, Ashleigh Manor. From the moment she arrives, life-like dreams and visions haunt her. Jake Precy, owner of a nearby cottage, has disturbing dreams too, but it's not until he meets Melissa that they begin to make sense. He hires her to research his family's history, unaware their lives are already entwined.

©2012 Christina Courtenay (P)2012 W F Howes Ltd Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Historical Fiction Romance Dream

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It's not always easy to present a time-slip novel convincingly, but Christina Courtenay has found the perfect formula here. When Melissa Grantham arrives at Ashleigh Manor, hoping to build a new life for herself and her daughter, she starts to experience dreams that are disturbingly real. They are frightening, but compelling, and she finds herself inexorably drawn into the lives of star-crossed lovers Sybilla and Roger several centuries earlier. Unable to shake off the past, she finds herself also unable to give herself wholly to attractive villager Jake Precy because of Roger's all-too-haunting presence. But Melissa is a genealogist and her skills are a useful tool when it comes to untangling the past.



The tale is vividly told and we are swept up by both the past and the present strands. My only niggle would be that I found the narrator's voice rather cloyingly sweet and her attempts at male voices very contrived.



Well worth listening to though!

A ghost story with a strong romantic theme

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Another captivating story from Christina Courtenay!
Listened to it at every available opportunity, especially in middle of the night when I couldn't sleep.
The narrator brought all the characters, male & female, alive with excellent interpretation of personality, mood, context of story line.
I am now bereft at having finished listening to this wonderful book and looking forward to my next.

Brilliant storyline

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I like time/travel stories, but too emotional and insufficiently historically balanced. Narrator's men' 'voices' made it even more so which may have added to the disappointment . Wish I had another novel downloaded on a long journey! Should have read reviews! Disappointed! Very 'light' entertainment!

Much more soppy than expected

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Strangely enjoyable once you got used to the narrator’s strange voices. Story interesting and, who knows, could well happen 🤷‍♀️. Quite nice to lose yourself in a fantasy like this with characters crossing time lines.
One main character is a genealogist and certainly makes it appear easy. She crossed generations and discovered lives in the medieval period in a few days. It takes most of us many years! But that apart, an easy and enjoyable listen.

Very different

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Love the story but I didn’t much like the different voices used,sometimes they just sounded strange

Very much enjoyed e

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Amazing story. It keeps you engaged to the very end. The performance by the narrator was very good.

Amazing story

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Fantastic story and extremely well read. I enjoyed it immensely. Kept me interested . Great characters.

Spellbinding Story

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Well narrated with a gripping storyline right to the end.
The Colourful characters were entirely believable and were not overdone by the reader. Brilliant!

Excellent!

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Enjoyed the story but felt it was a bit overlong. very well portrayed and good characters.

Good but bit drawn out

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I don't think I can carry on with this. I love the author's books but the narrator's male voice is comical. I feel terrible saying this but it's like Gail from Coronation St. pretending to be a man. So sorry again.

Sorry but the narrators mens voice...

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