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The Pursuit of William Abbey

By: Claire North
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
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From the award-winning and best-selling author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K comes a powerful new novel that examines how the choices we make can haunt us forever....

South Africa, 1884. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by white colonists. He's guilt-struck but too cowardly to stand up against this horrific act. And as the child dies, his mother curses William.

William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world. It never stops, never rests. It can cross oceans and mountains. And if it catches him, the person he loves most in the world will die....

Moving, thought-provoking and utterly gripping, Claire North's extraordinary new novel proves again that she is one of the most original and innovative voices in modern fiction.

©2019 Claire North (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK Dystopian Fiction Science Fiction
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You'll find Clare North's books in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section but that really does her no justice at all, in fact she is more teller of 'Twilight Zone' tales than anything. Back in the Victorian age she would have been referred to as a mystery writer, the perfect fit for 'The Pursuit of William Abbey', which is absolutely a Victorian era mystery tale, both in style and content.

William Abbey is a feckless young Doctor of the Victorian age who is 'exiled' to Natal for reasons we won't go into here and as a result of an act of cowardly negligence ends up being cursed by a local. Forever more he will be the man who knows the secrets in peoples hearts, which as it turns out, is not as much fun as one imagines it might be

Though it lacks the compelling thrills and pace of her breakout novel 'The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August', It's still a terrific yarn and well worth a read for those attracted to this sort of story.

Absorbing Victorian Era Styl Mystery Tale

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