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The Night Child
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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The Night Child
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Publisher's Summary
Exquisitely nuanced and profoundly intimate, The Night Child is a story of resilience, hope, and the capacity of the mind, body, and spirit to save itself despite all odds.
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl’s face appears above the students’ desks—“a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora’s body—the kind of raw terror you feel when there’s no way out, when every cell in your body, your entire body, is on fire—when you think you might die.”
Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, a terrible secret is discovered—a secret that pushes Nora toward an even deeper psychological breakdown.
This breathtaking debut novel examines the impact of traumatic childhood experiences and the fragile line between past and present.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Endeavor
- 28-10-2023
Different, intersting take
Very different from other books with a similar story. It really dives into the unstable psyche of an individual traumatised as a child
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Barbara
- 17-05-2023
Not for me.
A bit of this, a bit of that, but overall, although I stuck it out to the bitter end, I didn't really enjoy reading this book. Plenty of 'suspense' and gorey bits but the overall premise was unbelievable for me. Investigative journalism with all the odds stacked against him. Narration was reasonable but not good. I won't be catching this writer again any time soon.
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