Fantastic experience

I absolutely loved this, especially the narration of the lady who played the part of Eleanor. The story is incredible, and I cried at the end! Brilliant, brilliant brilliant. I’ve found a new author! He’s incredible.

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Intriguing

The story kept me listening without a break. The only thing detracting from it was the narrator's habitual mispronunciation of certain words. Saying 'parsage' instead of 'passage' was the most frequent insult on the ear, perhaps from the effort of speaking in an upper class English accent, but there were others. The story itself was brilliant.

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Not what I was expecting, very old-fashioned.

I don't know why, but I didn't go into this audio book expecting it to be anything like it was (I had barely read the blurb and couldn't remember much about it by the time I started listening to it). I had been hoping for something with a bit of horror and a bit of supernatural mystery and, while this had elements of that, they were very minute and scarce. At times, this felt more like an Austen or Bronte novel about old-timey England than anything spooky, but it did eventually build elements of mystery in the latter half. Unfortunately, they weren't too thrilling and they culminated in a rather anticlimactic ending. I feel like it could have been better if there were a little more action, but perhaps that would have ruined the style. For what it was, it was well done, both written and performed. There were 4 different narrators, one for each section, and they were all great, albeit the final one had a tenancy to shout a little too much when trying to build suspense and it became rather annoying. My only wish is that there had been more regarding the supernatural elements in the story. For a story called "The Séance", there really wasn't much séances in it in the end!

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Sadly not quite my cup of tea.

The continual threat of the mad house as a way the control emotional women was a repeated scenario through generations. I struggled to finish the book. The female narrator was grating, parts of her hysterical high pitched carry on set me to telling her to get a grip and take a bex [ aspirin powder] and have a lay down. The story had enough twists and turns to be interesting.

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