The Second Sleep
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The Second Sleep
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Narrated by:
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Roy McMillan
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By:
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Robert Harris
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and Express
WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST?
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'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if possible.' STEPHEN KING
'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative.' SUNDAY TIMES
'Genuinely thrilling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land.
It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination - a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor - before night falls and curfew is imposed.
He's lost and he's becoming anxious as he slowly picks his way across a countryside strewn with the ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm.
What Fairfax cannot know is that, in the days and weeks to come, everything he believes in will be tested to destruction, as he uncovers a secret that is as dangerous as it is terrifying ...
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'[Harris] takes us on a thrilling ride while serving up serious food for thought.' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A truly surprising future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.' EVENING STANDARD
'The book's real power lies in its between-the-lines warning that our embrace of the internet represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It's a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been proud.' DAILY MAIL
'Harris' latest work intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles issues of religion, science and the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you will be left pondering as often as you are page-turning.' HERALD
'A brilliantly imaginative thriller' READER'S DIGEST
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- Kindle Customer
- 24-09-2019
A gobsmacking tale
This audiobook was mesmerising.I dare not write a word of it’s content lest I spoil the awe I felt at it’s unfolding for others. Robert Harris, I loved it sir, Bravo! Roy McMillan, you read it magnificently. Thank you both. I recommend it wholeheartedly, I am definitely getting a hard copy.
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- Snappy Dresser
- 05-02-2023
Excellent story
In a post apocalyptic world, descendants of survivors take an interest in the past. With believable characters and a compelling story, we begin to love the era. Great work.
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- Ed
- 05-01-2024
Great story
Harris is an excellent writer of so many genres. This is an interesting mix. The narrator was terrific and captured the mood exquisitely.
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- A Descendant of Scotsmen
- 22-04-2020
A mystery within a mystery...
I was enjoying this historical tale when it went in a direction I was not expecting and which turned out to be thought provoking indeed. Bloody well done, and well read by Roy McMillan.
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- elizabeth b.
- 18-11-2020
Marvellous
Oh I loved this story. A mystery and love story. I must read more written by Robert Harris. The narrator Roy McMillan was great too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-10-2019
Enthralling story read and listened to
I tested reading and listening to the novel simultaneously. Quite a fabulous and an engulfing experience to dive into a dystopian version of the Name of The Rose by Umberto Ecco.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-10-2019
Entertaining listen
Harris can always keep a story moving, accelerating from a slow start to a feverish conclusion. Compared to Harris’ best it feels like a less fully realised world. At times it felt a little thin. Without the historical quirks of say, Archangelsk, it veers close to Young Adult fiction. Nevertheless I enjoyed it and it kept me listening hours at a time.
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- Robert
- 24-03-2021
Disappointed with ending, a lazy piece of writing.
Narration was excellent and overall the story engaging. However the ending showed lack of thought.
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- Brendan B.
- 31-12-2020
The Fortelling of a Modern Apocalypse
Looking to Ancient Rome to provide answers to a collapsed Civilisation and Empire is so last year! Read this book and discover the inconvenient and not so obvious truth about the chillingly identical trajectory of today’s world and its unwitting path to apocalyptic self destruction! Science and Technology combines to render mankind’s survival completely and utterly vulnerable to the equivalent of a neighbourhood power outage . In one fell swoop civilisation is returned to the Dark Ages and forced to re-live and re-learn through centuries of time travel to the Middle Ages. Despite the prevailing evangelistic and feudal powers that prevail in this future past an unlikely hero emerges from amidst the clergy. Will Pastor Fairfax overcome his vocational disciplines and the powerful forces that seek to keep the secret truths of the past hidden from the survivors who seek it and instead save it for their own nefarious contrivances? Adam tempting Eve with a bite of the Apple takes on a sinister new symbolical logic!
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- hugh h
- 08-01-2024
an extraordinary story and very thought provoking
I don't normally read science fiction but the plot is thought provoking . How will mankind in a few centuries regard our present civilisation and indeed will mankind itself still exist as we know it now. will it be more advanced or will it have reverted to ancient times after some disaster.
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