• The Unseeing

  • By: Anna Mazzola
  • Narrated by: Liz Pearce
  • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (238 ratings)

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The Unseeing

By: Anna Mazzola
Narrated by: Liz Pearce
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Publisher's summary

Edgar Award Winner, Best Paperback Original, 2018

It is 1837, and the city streets teem with life, atmosphere, and the stench of London. Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother, has been sentenced to hang for her role in the murder of Hannah Brown on the eve of her wedding. Edmund Fleetwood, an idealistic lawyer, is appointed to investigate Sarah's petition for mercy and consider whether justice has been done. Struggling with his own demons, he is determined to seek out the truth, yet Sarah refuses to help him. Edmund knows she's hiding something but needs to discover just why she's maintaining her silence. For how can it be that someone with a child would go willingly to their own death?

The Unseeing is a vividly written novel of human frailty, fear, and manipulation and of the terrible consequences of jealousy and misunderstanding.

©2016 Anna Mazzola (P)2017 Recorded Books

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based on truth

I loved the fact that it's based on truth you can actually find out more yourself

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sara

loved it! kept me on the edge of my seat! I liked the historic information at the end

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loved it kept me in suspense throughout.

it was a great story kept me on the edge of my seat. i also enjoyed the historic ending by the author.

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The Unseeing

This is a part factual and part fictional story of a woman in the 1800s convicted of aiding disposal of a murdered woman in England. The historical facts of her imprisonment in the notorious Newgate prison and the conditions inside the prison are eye opening. The description of life for the population not in prison borders on the conditions of the times given by Charles Dickens. .
Although macabre it is a fascinating book. I recommend it.

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loved it.

I loved it. keeps you guessing until the end. You get attached to the characters.

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It's amazing that nothing has changed.

Great story based on some true facts. I find it amazing what those in power will do to the less powerful. Pride is a direct line to your end.

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what a fantastic story!

the story is so well told the narrator is brilliant, the details, the characters the plot....I just loved everything about this rich detailed glimpse into the past!!

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Amazing

A really good story with a great narrator!! A must read for lovers of historical fiction!

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Immersing experience

Very well crafted story. Almost immediately, I was fully immersed in the period. The characters and culture were brought fully to life by both author and narrator. I enjoyed it very much.

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good historical fiction

kept my interest to the end. although I suspected the guilty party,, it's the telling of the story coupled with some surprising twists, that made it interesting. beautifully narrated,

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