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In this haunting and compelling follow-up to the instant classic The Secret of Nightingale Wood, Lucy Strange takes a seafaring myth and grounds it in the stark reality of World War II.
Growing up in a lighthouse, 11-year-old Pet's world has been one of storms, secret tunnels, and stories about sea monsters. But now the country is at war and the clifftops are a terrifying battleground. Pet will need to muster all her bravery to uncover why her family is being torn apart.
This is the story of a girl who is afraid and unnoticed. A girl who freezes with fear at the enemy planes ripping through the skies overheard. A girl who is somehow destined to become part of the strange, ancient legend of the Daughters of Stone.
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Great book!
So interesting and has a very hooking
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- Garden Womble
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A fabulous second book by Strange
This is the second book by Lucy Strange that I have listened to and I absolutely loved it. I've heard so many wartime stories growing up, as told by both my parents and grandparents, about their time during WWII in the UK, that I could really immerse myself in this book. I really enjoy Strange's prose and her approach to writing from a child's point a view without it being a childish read. Children at the time of the war were typically far more precocious and independent than today's coddled children. I very much relate to Pet.
I do have to agree with a couple of other reviewers that the villain revealing all at the end in rather long monologues was less effective than having the story come out as told by different members of the investigative team might have been. Why everything would be explained as it was in the setting when it was explained seems unrealistic. Other than that, a fantastic listen!
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- erin stapleton
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amazing
this is my favorite book and I have read a a lot! if you liked this book I think you would probably enjoy the coequal. " the secret of nightingale wood" which I have read and enjoyed. they are totally different genres though but overall I love this book! it is my favorite. thankyou for writing this book Lucy! thankyou for reading.
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- By A. Davis on 09-25-20
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The Lamplighters
- A Novel
- By: Emma Stonex
- Narrated by: Tom Burke, Indira Varma
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 255
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Story4 out of 5 stars 227
It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls up to the Maiden Rock lighthouse with relief for the keepers. But no one greets them. When the entrance door, locked from the inside, is battered down, rescuers find an empty tower. A table is laid for a meal not eaten. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a storm raging round the tower, but the skies have been clear. And the clocks have all stopped at 8:45.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Go towards the light.....
- By Michael Ferris on 03-25-21
By: Emma Stonex
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The Lost One
- By: Mary Stewart
- Narrated by: Antonia Whillans
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
The recently rediscovered short story 'The Lost One', perfect for fans of Daphne du Maurier, Santa Montefiore and Anya Seton. First published in Woman's Journal in 1960, and set against the backdrop of unfenced country and dark winding valleys at night, the aptly named 'The Lost One' features The Wind off the Small Isles heroine Perdita West, who brings her characteristic pluck and courage to this classic Mary Stewart tale of suspense and intrigue....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short, but nice. Narration was good.
- By K's Ma on 10-10-19
By: Mary Stewart
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The Lighthouse Witches
- By: C. J. Cooke
- Narrated by: Eva Feiler, Lesley Harcourt, Jess Nesling, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 727
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 647
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 647
When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters - Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderfully haunting story!
- By Tommy on 12-06-21
By: C. J. Cooke
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Enchanter's Child, Book One: Twilight Hauntings
- By: Angie Sage
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Alex has a set of Enchanted cards. When she flutters her fingers above them, something magical happens: The cards come alive and create moving pictures of what is now and what is yet to come. But Enchantment is illegal in the city of Luma, and those who practice it are imprisoned forever in the Vaults - dark dungeons deep below the city. When Alex is betrayed by her foster sister Zerra, she knows she is in great danger. With the help of her little foster brother, Louie, she makes a daring escape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too hard to listen to
- By J.M. Jaco on 09-30-21
By: Angie Sage
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Whose Waves These Are
- By: Amanda Dykes
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose...and rocks. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes. Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story
- By Rita N. Bulington on 07-08-21
By: Amanda Dykes
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The Woman in the Mirror
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca James
- Narrated by: Charlotte Newton-John, Katharine Mangold
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 179
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Story4 out of 5 stars 153
For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey’s twin children. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then, the twins’ adoration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surroundings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb Gothic
- By MamaBear on 02-02-21
By: Rebecca James
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The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant
- By: Kayte Nunn
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4 out of 5 stars 30
1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden love letters. Captivated by their passion and tenderness, Rachel determines to track down the intended recipient.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very predictable storyline.
- By Lil on 11-23-22
By: Kayte Nunn
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Little Eve
- By: Catriona Ward
- Narrated by: Carolyn Bonnyman
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth. The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction. A reckoning beyond Eve’s imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong. And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh…
- By Samantha F on 11-15-22
By: Catriona Ward
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The Girl from the Channel Islands
- By: Jenny Lecoat
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 444
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 392
Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu fled Vienna two years ago. Now she watches the skies over Jersey for German planes, convinced that an invasion is imminent. When it finally comes, there is no counterattack from Allied forces - the Channel Islands are simply not worth defending. Most islanders and occupying forces settle into an uneasy coexistence, but for Hedy, the situation is perilously different. For Hedy is Jewish — a fact that could mean deportation, or worse.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Might be good
- By Anonymous User on 11-26-21
By: Jenny Lecoat
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Secrets at the Last House Before the Sea
- Heaven's Cove, Book 1
- By: Liz Eeles
- Narrated by: Francesca Waite
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
From the attic of Driftwood House, there are stunning views of the deep green sea and sapphire sky. But Rosie can’t tear her eyes away from the faded photograph in her hands, and the words written on the back that will change everything.... Back in the tiny seaside village of Heaven’s Cove after the death of her mother, all Rosie Merchant wants is to hide her tears, rent out her childhood home and get back to her ‘real’ life, away from the gossiping villagers and wild Devon weather she escaped from years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable listen
- By Joluma on 08-10-21
By: Liz Eeles
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Beyond the Pale
- A Fantasy Anthology
- By: Jim Butcher, Saladin Ahmed, Peter Beagle, and others
- Narrated by: Jarret Lemaster
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Beyond the Pale is an anthology of 11 dark fantasy and paranormal stories that skirt the border between our world and others. Was that my imagination, or did I hear something under my bed? What was that blurred movement in my darkened closet? There is but a thin veil separating the real and the fantastic and therein dwell the inhabitants of these stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than expected
- By Amazon Customer on 02-24-20
By: Jim Butcher, and others
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No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories
- By: Brian Lumley
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
With his multiple-award-winning literary career now spanning over four decades, Lumley continues to write his superior fictions, examples of which from each of those decades can be found in this current collection, where weird tales itself is represented by no less than five stories! And so, to complete a trilogy of volumes begun with the Lovecraft-inspired The Taint and Other Novellas, and followed by Haggopian and Other Stories, Subterranean Press is now proud to offer No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories, a handpicked collection of Brian Lumley s best macabre tales.
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4 out of 5 stars
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another outstanding collection & great narrator
- By latasha on 12-09-19
By: Brian Lumley
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The Girls in Navy Blue
- A Novel
- By: Alix Rickloff
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore, Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19
1918—America is at war with Germany, and, for the first time in history, the US Navy has allowed women to join up alongside the men. Ten thousand of them rush to do their part. German-American Marjory Kunwald enlists in the Navy to prove her patriotism. Suffragette Blanche Lawrence to prove that women are the equal of men. And shy preacher’s daughter Viv Weston in a desperate attempt to hide from the police. Even as the US military pours into France and the war heats up, the three yeomanettes find friendship and sisterhood within the Navy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story
- By Dixie Susalla on 11-15-22
By: Alix Rickloff
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The Other Girl
- By: C D Major
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
1942, New Zealand. Edith’s been locked away for a long time. She was just five years old when she was sent to Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. Fifteen years later, she has few memories of her life before the asylum, but longs for one beyond it. When she survives a devastating fire that destroys her ward, Edith is questioned by the police and a young doctor, Declan Harris. Intrigued by his beautiful patient, Declan begins to doubt the official reasons for her incarceration. Is she truly mad - or could the impossible stories she told as a child actually be true?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Story
- By escoocoo on 11-13-22
By: C D Major
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Set the Stars Alight
- By: Amanda Dykes
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Lucy Clairmont's family treasured the magic of the past, and her childhood fascination with stories of the high seas led her to become a marine archaeologist. But when tragedy strikes, it's Dashel, an American forensic astronomer, and his knowledge of the stars that may help her unearth the truth behind the puzzle she's discovered in her family home.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sweet but lacking
- By Justin K Flora on 08-16-20
By: Amanda Dykes
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Beyond the Moon
- A Haunting Debut Novel of Time Travel and WW1
- By: Catherine Taylor
- Narrated by: Liz May Brice
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
A strange twist of fate connects a British soldier fighting in WWI in 1916 with a young woman living in modern-day England a century later, in this haunting best-selling literary time-travel novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Enthralling!!!
- By M.J. M. on 07-14-21
By: Catherine Taylor
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Through a Darkening Glass
- A Novel
- By: R.S. Maxwell
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4 out of 5 stars 70
England, 1940. Literature student Ruth Gladstone evacuates Cambridge University for Martynsborough, a tiny English village with a shadowy history. For Ruth, retreating to a forgotten corner of the country is more than a safety maneuver; it’s an opportunity to end an undesirable engagement and begin writing her first novel. But upon her arrival, Ruth learns of a ghostly wraith haunting the villagers after decades of silence. Although Ruth is enthralled by the legend, the locals are less charmed by the wraith’s return.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring boring boring
- By Evey B. on 05-25-23
By: R.S. Maxwell