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Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson
Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson, Vicky Licorish
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A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky.

In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village seance that threatens the bounds between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband. Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.

©2023 Jeanette Winterson (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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This was a surprisingly astute set of modern ghost stories that questions the very idea of what a ghost is and can be.

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The stories and writing were great and I so enjoyed them for fall listening. They were engrossing, moving, creepy, one was even enlightening. The only drawback for listening was there was not enough of a pause between stories.

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JW is always worth a listen

Jeanette Winterson writes like she can’t help it and I love that about her. Some of the themes were a little repetitive for the way this collection was marketed, but I found it very enjoyable. My advice to her (not that she asked me) is to surrender any attempts at an American accent. It’s unnecessary and it’s distracting to hear a character from New York slinging around something between a Georgia drawl and a Manchester twang. It’s only in the one story, though and I love her so.

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