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A Dark-Adapted Eye

By: Barbara Vine
Narrated by: Harriet Walter
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Like most families, they had their secrets...

...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the '50s was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder.

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10+ hours of beautifully narrated, taut mystery
An all round triumph and to date my favourite Audible

A well adapted tale

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Just read it ! Full of dark surprises and characters you don’t know whether to love or hate in their turn.

Brilliant.

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This is my one of my favourite Barbara Vines. The understanding of human psychology is superb and the characters and their relationships so plausible. It is also worth seeing the drama series which is now available on YouTube.

Fabulous story and narration excellent

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Simply put, a good book. Her take on psychology is both admirable and skilled.

Writing at the top of her powers.

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A very well constructed story which was narrated beautifully by Harriet Walter.
A family tale which kept you listening with intent. Each chapter seemed to have a new revelation.

I was particularly interested to hear of about Capital punishment as I was alive when the last woman was hanged in the fifties.

For me this story kept held my interest all the way through although I did guess the twist in the tale quite early on. However, this did not spoil the plot and I would happily listen to other books written by Barbara Vine.

A very interesting story.

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