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Stormy Petrel

The gripping classic of love and adventure in the Scottish Hebrides from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery

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Stormy Petrel

By: Mary Stewart
Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
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Summary

 A classic tale of love, intrigue, adventure and the natural world, set on a beautiful isolated Hebridean island, by beloved novelist Mary Stewart.

When Rose Fenemore takes a desperately needed holiday to an isolated cottage on the Scottish island of Moila she doesn't expect much in the way of adventure - just a few quiet weeks of writing, walking and bird-watching. And then, late one night during a wild storm, two young men appear in her doorway, seeking shelter from the wind and rain. Neither man is quite who he claims, and the question of who to trust will put Rose in grave peril . . .

The stormy petrels. The fragile, tiny black birds, nocturnal and solitary, that come ashore to nest but spend most of the lives flying close above the sea-waves, come storm or shine.

'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans

(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©1991 Mary Stewart Genre Fiction Mystery Romance Small Town & Rural Fiction Suspense
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Critic Reviews

From opening to finale, this zestful romantic adventure grips, amuses, frightens and delights
Mary Stewart is magic
The stylish, educated novels of Mary Stewart . . . arguably inspired the deluge of bestselling romantic fiction that has flooded the market in recent decades.
Mary Stewart sprinkled intelligence around like stardust . . . She built the bridge between classic literature and modern popular fiction. She did it first and she did it best (Melanie Reid)
A writer of considerable skill . . . [with an] intuitive feel for the past and its re-creation in vivid, poetic detail
A wonderful wordsmith . . . Stewart was among the first authors to seamlessly integrate a mystery and a romance thus allowing the two to come alive and complement each other.
All stars
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Initially distracted by the narrators voice which doesnt sound like a Cambridge don. The other accents were lovely as is the story itself. Very satusfying.

One of my favourires

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I love Mary Stewart’s writing but The narrator’s speech pattern and voice were completely wrong. I so wish the older recorded versions of Mary Stewart’s books were available. Saying that however, Susie Riddell’s narration of The Wind off the Small Isles is perfect.

Favourite book spoilt by narration

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