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  • By: Sara Foster
  • Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
  • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (481 ratings)

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Beneath the Shadows

By: Sara Foster
Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
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Publisher's Summary

In this thrilling gothic suspense debut by Sara Foster in the tradition of Rosamund Lupton and Sophie Hannah, a young mother searches Yorkshire’s windswept moors for the truth behind her husband’s mysterious disappearance.

The answers are hiding Beneath the Shadows

When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village on the untamed heath. Everyone - the police, her parents, even her best friend and younger sister - is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, cannot accept this explanation. She is desperate for answers, but the slumbering, deeply superstitious hamlet is unwilling to give up its secrets. 

As Grace hunts through forgotten corners of the cottage searching for clues and digs deeper into the lives of the locals, strange dreams begin to haunt her. Are the villagers hiding something, or is she becoming increasingly paranoid? Only as snowfall threatens to cut her and Millie off from the rest of the world does Grace make a terrible discovery. She has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along, and she and her daughter will be in terrible danger if she cannot get them away in time.

©2011 by Sara Foster (P)2019 by Blackstone Publishing

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Underwhelming

The sisters voice was so annoying and the story was too drawn out and the end was just underwhelming.

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A good, easy listen

I enjoyed the book. I could relate to the characters and the narration was good. I love books in settings like this, so that's always a plus for me. I would read other books by Sara Foster.

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Gripping and enjoyable all the way to the end.

This story was so real, intriguing, a bit of romance (which was nice), lots of adventure. Just such a nice tread (listen😀).

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Well, that was about nothing.

Flat characters, boring story. There is just so much about this that doesn’t make any sense.

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Someone wake me up please

So underwhelming. i completely lost interest and had this on as some background noise. Thank goodness it's over

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Boring

This book was underwhelming, very slow and not enthralling to listen to. it felt like the story only started with an hour to go.

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amazing!

Wow, what an amazing story! loved every word, kept me hooked. I highly recommend.

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Tangled family secrets

I found the book interesting but, once the answers were revealed I still wondered why the baby had been left in its pram on the porch, given the father's fate. The narrator was easy to listen to but occasionally a female voice sounded a little male causing a brief confusion as to who was talking when in a crowd.
Overall a good read/ listen.

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Absolutions engrossing

Well written mesmerising story. I found myself completely involved in this gripping tale.The descriptions were so vivid I felt as if I was there with all of the characters. The narration was terrific.

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Well read

Enjoyed being in the Yorkshire moors. Cold winter weather.
Village life how in generations and a blink people leave. But remnants stay Takes you into the area quite vividly
A believable yarn!

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