The Hoarder
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The Hoarder
Narrated by:
Aoife McMahon
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Narrated by:
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Aoife McMahon
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Jess Kidd
About this listen
The mesmerising new novel from the winner of the Costa Short Story Award, following her debut novel, Himself.
Maud Drennan - underpaid carer and unintentional psychic - is the latest in a long line of dogsbodies for the ancient, belligerent Cathal Flood. Yet despite her best efforts, Maud is drawn into the mysteries concealed in his filthy, once-grand home. She realises that Cathal, and the junk-filled rooms, are opening up to her.
With only her landlady and a troop of sarcastic ghostly saints to help, Maud must uncover what lies beneath Cathal's decades-old hostility and the strange activities of the house itself.
©2018 Jess Kidd (P)2018 W.F. Howes LtdCritic Reviews
"Kidd has imagination to die for." ( Guardian)
"Mixes up murder and mayhem with the eerily supernatural. Utterly unputdownable." ( Sunday Express)
Good but not great
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So, what did I think of my first "Magical Realism" book?
Firstly, it was an absolute delight listening to the narration by Aoife McMahon. Her variety of Irish vocal characterisations and accents made "The Hoarder" a book I wanted to have read to me, rather than having to try and interpret the written words in my own dodgy version of an Irish 'brogue'. In fact, this is an ideal book for the audiobook format and McMahon aces the delivery.
Secondly, I am pleased to say that "The Hoarder" somewhat taxed this old bloke's imagination. Like most people of my vintage, I grew up having stories read to me and later reading them myself. Without TV and very little on the radio, our imaginations were tickled and tricked by the Brothers Grimm, H C Andersen, Enid Blyton, and countless other authors of fantasy stories and fairy tales and "Boy's Own" or "Biggles" adventures. The weekly walk to the local library was an outing, an adventure in itself, as my older brother, my younger sister and I pleaded to be able to borrow more than three books at a time.
These days my imagination is stimulated usually by the likes of Michael Connelly, Mark Greaney and James Clavell, but not in the same way as Jess Kidd did with "The Hoarder". Kidd had me imagining the 6'9" giant and the way and where he lived; imagining the saints and wondering wtf they were actually doing, other than contributing to the 'magical realism' of the story. Mostly this was good listening, but quite frequently I would have to back up and re-listen to several paragraphs or a chapter or two so I could work out what was actually going on.
Overall, I enjoyed my first excursion into the realms of Magical Realism.
My first excursion into Magical Realism
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Poetry with an Irish accent
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Long
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