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The Girl with All the Gifts

By: M. R. Carey
Narrated by: Finty Williams
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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award 2014

Not every gift is a blessing.

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her 'our little genius'.

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favourite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up.

Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.

Emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end, The Girl with all the Gifts is the most powerful and affecting thriller you will listen to this year.

The phenomenal word-of-mouth best seller The Girl with all the Gifts is now a major film on widespread distribution starring Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine.

2015, Arthur C Clarke Awards, Short-listed

2015, James Herbert Award for Horror Writing, Short-listed

2015, US Audie Awards, Winner

©2014 M. R. Carey (P)2014 Hachette Audio Adventure Dystopian Horror Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Scary Funny
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loved it. it's a must. the story had the best performance and was perfect. Simply: Yes.

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The narrator was great. An awesome use of voice changes for the different characters.
The story has a very common apocalypse style but still kept me interested all the way through. I'm just about to start the next one in the series.

Engaging all the way from the first few pages.

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interesting story. great performance as well. wonder how the movie translates it. really enjoyed it

was great to listen to

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a well thought out zombie story with good direction and a beautiful finish. very realistic (as far as zombie apocolypses go) very reminiscant of the video game "last of us" but i think it has a nicer touch to the ending.

loved it

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I really enjoyed this book. The story was quite gripping and edge of your seat scary at times. The narration was fantastic, each character seemed quite well separated in voice.

Fantastic, scary thriller

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