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The Shape of Darkness
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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The Shape of Darkness
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell, read by Sophie Aldred.
Winner of the Historical Crime Book of the Year 2021 Award at the 2022 Fingerprint Crime Awards
‘Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better’ STACEY HALLS
‘It truly kept me guessing to the very last page’ SONIA VELTON
Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness...
A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead – and to try and identify their killers – in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell.
Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another...
Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back...
What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?
Critic Reviews
"Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better." (Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars and The Foundling)
"It's her best one yet and that’s saying something. A story of a woman haunted in every way possible, I think it’s a future gothic classic." (Martyn Waites)
"Darkly addictive and utterly compelling. Reading Laura’s books is like watching a horror movie where you have to keep hiding behind a cushion because you dread what is coming next, but you simply have to find out!" (Ruth Hogan)
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- Dee L
- 06-12-2021
Amazing
I have just finished this book at 1.27am and I usually stop at 10.30pm to go to bed but I was RIVETED. I’m still thinking of the twists and turns herein. Absolutely fantastic book and performance!
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- Lucinda Keppel
- 24-07-2021
Slow beginning and middle, good ending
The beginning was slow and flowery, and the end was fast-paced and exciting. I just wish the whole story had been fast-paced and exciting. The narrator was great. The singing was a bit odd though, I had to skip through those parts (it adds nothing to the story).
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