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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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The first half took far too long to get anywhere and I nearly gave up. Glad I didn’t as I found the second half and especially the last quarter excellent. Brilliant language and stunning narration as you’d expect from Harriet Walter.

Slow start but intriguing finish

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I did not like how long it took to work out we’re the story was going .

Sorry it did not completely wanting to listen to it .i just listened to it because I had started it .

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