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Looking Glass Sound
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Katherine Fenton
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the killer that stalked their small New England town. Of the body they found, the horror of that discovery echoing down the decades. And of Sky, Wilder's one-time friend, who stole his unfinished memoir and turned it into a lurid bestselling novel, Looking Glass Sound.
This book will be Wilder's revenge on Sky, a man who betrayed his trust and died without ever telling him why. But as he writes, Wilder begins to find notes written in Sky's signature green ink and events in his manuscript start to chime eerily with the present. Is Sky haunting him? Did Wilder have more to do with Sky's death than he admits? And who is the woman drowning in the cove, whom no-one else can see?
No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to wonder: is he writing the book, or is the book writing him?
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- Di
- 13-09-24
Not really
This book is not void of merit. Some parts are evocative, engaging and almost interesting. But it is too convoluted. As if asking your creative writing students for ideas around a story and then fitting every single one of them into the novel. The male reader is not bad in some parts, but in some others (Harper’s british accent and female voices) it sounded bad. I see why they introduced a female reader, but it did not work well either.
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- holdemax76
- 02-05-23
Amazing
Loved this audiobook, will definitely go back and do it again. Catriona Ward is a special writer
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- Mrs P.
- 23-05-23
Confusing
I think this might have been better in a hard copy book as I found it a bit confusing in terms of the different characters and timelines. Maybe this would have been signalled better on the page.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-09-23
Losing interest…
I really enjoyed the first part of the book, but found the middle bit to be dull (I was definitely zoning out and feeling bored), and then the last third to be confusing, even with different voices. Definitely not the book for me!
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- MissBCB
- 04-05-23
A dark and stormy tale, redolent with teenage passion and adult regret.
Catriona Ward has created a darkly divine twisty tale. A book within a book within a book, which draws us as readers to the seductive but deadly Looking Glass Sound. Initially, you feel as if you’re in an entirely engaging, but relatively straightforward tale of teenage misfits murder, and one insane summer on the east coast of Connecticut. As the book goes on, however, it becomes increasingly clear that this is a meditation on loss and writing. the characters write their lives to both create and destroy their pasts and underline it all is a fantastic sense of menace and a subtle Dreamlike quality keeps the reader entirely engaged.
Catriona Ward is a writer of huge intelligence, wit and perspicacity about the nature of humanity. I have enjoyed all her books, but this may be my favourite alongside the masterful Little Eve - fantastic work, and a terrific read!
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-04-23
Re read
The lines between what is the book and what is real life plus the multiple time lines was confusing.
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- Cliona Woods
- 02-05-23
This story is completely immersive; compelling and sinister,
Full of dark magic, and at the same time beautiful.
It explores the way a story belongs to all of its characters; each one of them wounded in a different way and none of them willing to share,
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- Danielle
- 15-08-24
Found it easy to get lost
I wasn’t a big fan. I finished the book so it did keep me reading. However, a few times I got lost and had no idea what was actually happening. Even know I struggle to tell someone what happened.
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- J
- 11-01-24
terrible narrating
Couldn't get past chapter 1 unfortunately to narrator's terrible English accent for one of the characters. like listening to a pantomime villain popping up unexpectedly every 2 mins. Shame as story might've been good.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-07-23
Dragged out
It would definitely be better as a physical book. 3/4 of the way through and I still didn't get what the point of the story was or where it was going, but not in a clever suprise way, more in a "zoned out, dont really care anymore' way. Loved last house on needless st. but this feels like a different author.
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