The Monster's Daughter

A Novel

De: Michelle Pretorius

Narrado por: Jennifer Woodburne

Somewhere on the South African veld, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentration camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa.

One hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past - a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official under the apartheid regime, and the children left behind in that long ago concentration camp.

Michelle Pretorius's epic debut weaves present and past together into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller that calls to mind Lauren Beukes's The Shining Girls and Tana French's The Secret Place. With an explosive conclusion, it marks the emergence of a thrilling new writer.

©2016 Michelle Pretorius (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Absorbing narrative(s)

Brilliant storie(s), badly narrated. Would it have been so difficult for the narrator to familiarise herself with the pronunciation of Afrikaans and isiXhosa words? It could be done phonetically.