An English Ghost Story
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Narrated by:
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Emma Fenney
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By:
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Kim Newman
About this listen
A dysfunctional British nuclear family seeks a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them the most threatening to destroy them from the inside out.
Kim Newman is a well known and respected author and movie critic. He writes regularly for Empire Magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
©2014 Kim Newman (P)2014 Audible StudiosListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
"Kim Newman gets inside your head like pollen off a field of wildflowers; the pleasant idyllic turns full of suffocating dread. Thoroughly enjoyable, master storytelling." (Lauren Beukes, bestselling author of "The Shining Girls")
What made the experience of listening to An English Ghost Story the most enjoyable?
A nice twist on spooky things happening in a house and the family being pleased about it, because those of us who love ghost stories would all probably be pleased to have spooky things happening - until it all goes horribly wrongWho was your favorite character and why?
There were all horrible! And supposed to be, that's part of the enjoyment of the book.Which character – as performed by Emma Fenney – was your favourite?
No favourite characters, it's not really that sort of book, but I did like her narration.Any additional comments?
Having read some reviews on here and goodreads it seems some people didn't get that one chapter is the story of the ghosts from the pov of a writer of childrens books who had lived in the house previously. Not sure how they missed that, as the fact that it's that author's house is a key part of the plot, but there you go.You want a ghost story? - here's a good one.
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What would have made An English Ghost Story better?
I'm not sure what would make it better. I've just finished listening and spent much of the second two thirds of the story shaking my head in wonder that anyone could possibly have set out to write so much unadulterated nonsense! So far as that goes the author succeeded marvellously, it's an outstanding achievement, but I wouldn't recommend you repeat my experience. The reader is to be commended for maintaining admirable self-control, she didn't laugh out loud even once.What will your next listen be?
Not sure.Would you listen to another book narrated by Emma Fenney?
No.If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from An English Ghost Story?
The second two thirds of the novel. perhaps, on second thought, cut the first third too.Oh dear. Why ever did they bother?
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