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The Unravelling
- Narrated by: Katherine Press
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
Two women.
A wild Island.
A truth buried deep in the past.
Tartelin Brown is all alone in the world. So when she sees an advert for a job on a remote island, she knows she has nothing to lose.
Her employer, Marianne Stourbridge, is a woman as strange and mysterious as the place she inhabits.
Tasked with hunting butterflies for Marianne’s research, Tartelin quickly uncovers evidence of something even more intriguing–for Marianne has a remarkable past.
Determined to piece together the story, Tartelin must first confront her own. But what she discovers on the island is more terrible and heart-breaking than she could ever have imagined.
Atmospheric and deeply emotional, The Unravelling is the captivating novel from the author of The Illustrated Child.
Critic reviews
"Like a surreal cabinet of curiosities - haunting, eerie, evocative." (Bridget Collins, Sunday Times best-selling author of The Binding)
"Polly Crosby whips up a lush, mythical world...realised beautifully in vivid writing. A book worm’s treat!" (Eve Chase, author of The Glass House)
"A beautifully written tale of butterflies, secrets and silk." (Sonia Velton, author of Blackberry and Wild Rose)
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- Corina Joy
- 01-10-22
Story is good but the sound is terrible!!!
What ever happened with the recording of this audio book the narrator sounds terrible!!
The sorry is good but I almost didn’t finish it because of the sound!
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- Vicky
- 15-02-22
Utterly Absorbing
Just finished this wonderful book - I can usually listen to audio books whilst pottering about the house/garden, but this commanded my full attention. I found the narrator captured the voice of the Island and it’s inhabitants beautifully.
The story starts by lulling you gently into island life - Polly Crosby is a wordsmith and paints stunningly clear and wondrous images - and you get to know the two women sharing this unique space together and yet both so very alone.
As the story progresses there is a deeper, darker narrative which you are pulled into as the different threads of the past and present are masterly inter-woven.
It is melancholic and even harrowing at times, whilst being incredibly cathartic. Not a lighthearted read, but such a beautiful one.
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- Fio
- 18-01-23
Enjoyable listen
I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the narration. Liked the pace and the story line
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