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Magpie Lane
- Narrated by: Susie Riddell
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers.
As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging - an eerie and ancient house - a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother.
But is Dee telling the whole story? Is her growing friendship with the eccentric house historian, Linklater, any cause for concern? And most of all, why was Felicity silent?
Roaming Oxford's secret passages and hidden graveyards, Magpie Lane explores the true meaning of family - and what it is to be denied one.
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"Enthralling...creepy and compelling." (The Times)
"Deliciously dark." (Alexandra Shulman)
"A gorgeously satisfying triumph." (Lucy Mangan)
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- AndyT
- 01-03-21
A true page turner
keeps you guessing, chapter after chapter. Sensational writing. leaves you wanting to visit magpie lane.
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- lottie
- 24-08-21
Totally Unrealistic
This book started well and the writing is fair but the actual story becomes predictable, then unrealistic and ridiculous.
The narrator is excellent.
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- AM
- 27-05-21
Great at first but then got silly not chilling
Like a lot of books, this starts well and draws you into the plot but, in the end, mute child, dreaming spires and evil posh people just wears a bit thin. It's not helped by the reader who makes the central character sound about 75 and incredibly angry and dour throughout, which is probably not the author's intention since she's a love interest. As so often with thrillers, the plot gets silly and embarrassing rather than more exciting. I mean, look, it's hard, and this is well structured with the police interviews and the retrospect. But, in the end, meh.
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- sarah land
- 24-09-20
great plot and narration
I loved this, I was gripped from the beginning . A clever plot and great narration too
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- E Douglas
- 01-06-20
Fantastic!
This is such a well crafted, carefully told story; compelling and utterly addictive - I listened to it in two days! Fantastic narration with brilliant accents added to the whole listening experience.
Highly recommended.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-09-20
Great Listen!
Really enjoyed this book, bindged it actually. Well narrated as well, really brings you into the characters.
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- mary doyle
- 14-09-20
enjoyed this book
Great characterisation, brilliant narrative. Lucy Atkins work is new to me but I intend to read more of her novels
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- K. A. Mosedale
- 13-04-21
Great Story Well Told
I really enjoyed this story and it was brilliantly narrated with a lovely range of voices and accents.
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- Tina
- 21-01-22
Enjoyable but felt unfinished
The story was compelling and the narrator was good, but two things marred it: one was the foul mouths of some characters and the other was the unsatisfactory ending.
If there was a sequel, I would happily buy it as so much was left unanswered.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-01-21
Exquisite
A marvellous piece. Throws up moral dilemma, shows how a mathematical equation can be a metaphor for life, how the minutiae becomes the monumentous. Really beautifully read.
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