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The Gallows Curse

By: Karen Maitland
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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About this listen

The year is 1210 and a black force is sweeping England. A vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in consecrated ground, babies unbaptized, and the people terrified of dying in sin. In the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. In desperation she visits the cunning woman, who has been waiting for just such an opportunity to fulfil an ancient curse conjured at the gallows.

©2011 Karen Maitland (P)2011 Oakhill Publishing Limited Historical Mystery Exciting Scary Fiction Royalty Tudor

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"Atmospheric and original." ( Woman and Home)
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If you could sum up The Gallows Curse in three words, what would they be?

Absolutely fantastic book

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Gallows Curse?

All of it

What does David Thorpe bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Character accents and who they are

Any additional comments?

As good as company of liars writer and narrator

Yet another fantastic book from Karen Maitland

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My only. Critisms would be the slightly irritating voice of master Raphael and the fact I felt it was a bit to lengthy.
100% credit for the descriptions of Norfolk,norwich and the very accurate accents.

Another great Karen Maitland

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A hard start but stay with it, the book becomes a great story and a really interesting insight to living in the middle ages!

Hard start

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a superbly narrated tale, a tragic love story with unlikely heroes and sheriff of Nottingham esque villains.......wonderful

a dark delicious treasure

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After listening to nearly 100 books this is up there in top 2 or 3.

It's an interesting story with a few twists to keep you hooked but the narration is just amazing, such a wide variety voices and with great expression.

Well worth a listen!!

An astoundingly narration of a good story.

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