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Arcadia
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Arcadia
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Publisher's Summary
A modern mystery born in a timeless Tasmanian forest from Australia's favourite storyteller, with new novel Before the Storm out now.
In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ancient forest. And when an unknown predator strikes, she is saved by an unusual protector...
Two generations later, Stella's granddaughter, Sally, and her best friend, Jessica, stumble over Stella's secret life in the forest and find themselves threatened in turn.
What starts as a girls' adventurous road trip becomes a hunt for the story of the past, to solve the present, and save their future...
A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-12-2018
Interesting but predictable
Beautiful description of environment but plot was very predictable. Raises awareness of important environmental issues.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-08-2021
review of Acadia
I enjoyed the book greatly except for the voice of Katie, it was screech worthy & not that of a young child. Loved the book though.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-12-2018
great easy read or listen
it was a lovely descriptive book where the forests of tassie come to life and makes you want to go and see the landscape for your self
Di Morrissey is always a reliable sourse of the local knowledge and going ons no matter which place she is writing about
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- Canning
- 03-12-2019
An environmental lesson wrapped in a story
Whilst the book had a great premise for the story of family and the centuries old forests spanning over 3 generations in rural Tasmania it came across more as preaching than story telling. I am quite passionate about old growth forests and our environment with loss of habitat and species but this just did not resonate with me and spoilt a wonderful inter generational family saga. I did love the forest imagery, the serenity of it and the relationship Stella had with the forest owl guardians. You could almost see the art works of Stella in your mind.
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- Jennifer
- 22-12-2018
Disappointing
I thought this story would be interesting and for the most part it was but the reader was terrible. The switching between the voices of the characters was so irritating. The reader attempted to speak a male voice, and old woman’s voice and the worst was the child’s voice which was piercing and I don’t k is any child who speaks like this. At one point I had to turn the volume down as the tone and pitch of the character voices was so irritating. I can’t recommend this story because I think most listeners would be irritated as was I by the disappointing delivery.
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- Christine
- 01-01-2019
Overall good story
Slow to start but stick with it you will be rewarded. Good story with a few surprising twists and good strong female characters. Sadly I cant give the narrator full Mark's because whilst the story was flawlessly performed the voice of the child was screechy and extremely annoying. Thankfully the child only has a small part and I tolerated the voice through those small parts.
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- Isabella
- 19-09-2021
Wonderful family saga
A wonderful family saga with secrets that many families hold.
I found it very slow in the beginning and thought it was going to go on about climate change and saving the planeta bit too much for my liking, but glad that I finished it as it was a great end to the story.
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- Emma
- 12-08-2019
Most enjoyable
Another great story, very descriptive and well delivered. Makes one want to visit Tasmania, and explore more of the beautiful areas found there.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-11-2018
A beautiful and intriguing story
A story of our time, intricately woven and addressing the importance of our natural world. I loved it!
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- William
- 10-04-2019
A bit slow.
Enjoyed this book, but didn't find it as engaging as Di's winderful books normally are.
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