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The Midnight Hour

By: Eve Chase
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt, Bert Seymour
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

A novel from Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage.


A glittering family. A Notting Hill house. Step into their secrets . . .
Notting Hill, London. Lou Parker's famous mother walks out of their pink front door and doesn't return home by midnight, or the midnight after... Looking after her little brother, trying to piece together where their mother might be, Lou ventures into a different world - far from the fancy terraces - filled with ramshackle antique shops, shadowy figures. A place where time seems to have stopped. And Lou must protect her brother. At all costs.
Twenty-one years - 7665 midnights - later. The new owner of a Notting Hill house starts excavating a basement, oblivious to what might lie beneath. While in a writer's Saint-Germain apartment, a mobile phone rings...and the clock starts ticking again.
Sweeping from vibrant London streets to the boulevards of Paris to an old English country house, The Midnight Hour is a story about the dark secrets hidden within a golden family - and a woman desperately trying to turn back the hands of time before it's too late.


Praise for Eve Chase:

'Atmospheric' Jane Fallon
'Utterly intoxicating' Veronica Henry
'Evocative' Karen Swan

©2024 Eve Chase (P)2024 Penguin Audio

City Life Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Mystery Urban Women's Fiction Exciting England

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Critic reviews

Mesmerising - a book you want to race back to (Lisa Jewell)
I’m always so excited for a new Eve Chase book and The Midnight Hour is her best yet! Beautifully written with characters that jumped off the page and a clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word (Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The Girls Who Disappeared)
Passionately emotional, dreamily written and dripping with boho glamour
Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master (Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Just Another Missing Person)
Beautifully written and totally compelling
An Eve Chase novel is always a sumptuous treat, and The Midnight Hour is perhaps her best yet. Exquisitely written, it’s immersive, propulsive and as intricately constructed as the antique clocks which herald each lonely midnight hour. As ever, it’s her characterisation that stands out, and her depiction of the joy and precariousness of first love, enjoyed by Maggie and Wolf. With whispers of One Day, and a story reaching back into nineties Notting Hill and Paris, this is a novel to immerse yourself in this summer: lush, evocative, nostalgic; gripping, with a dark undercurrent, but ultimately redemptive and hopeful. A true treat of a book (Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal)
A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets — the perfect summer read (Kate Morton)
A gripping tale of family secrets
I loved The Midnight Hour, a gripping, beautifully written novel that plunges you into the lives of siblings, Maggie and Kit, and the mysterious past that looks like it's about to catch up with them. Eve Chase skilfully weaves together two time periods, evoking London and Paris and the world of antiques with such a depth of detail that I felt I was walking the streets alongside the characters. As the tension builds and the secrets they’ve been hiding start to come to light, I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough and felt every bit of Maggie and Kit’s peril. A summer must-read. (Sarah Pearse, bestselling author of The Sanatorium)
This mesmerizing mystery from Chase traces the story of an eccentric British family across two decades . . . with poetic prose and a sweeping scope, Chase reveals the Parker family’s secrets at a tantalizing pace. The heart of the story, however, lies in Maggie and Wolf’s reunion, which the author portrays with tenderness. Surprising, suspenseful, and heartfelt, this is impossible to forget
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Loved the twist and turns and how the story jumped from one character and timeframe to another

Twist and turns

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As with the other Eva Chase books, this is a well-written and riveting “pageturner” where you keep on listening as the plot twists and turns. But compared to her previous books, I think the plot of this one is more superficial and even somewhat predictable towards the end, and the characters less engaging and more stereotypical. But still definitely worth spending time and credits on, if you want an entertaining late summer listen.

Not her best but good read

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I absolutely loved the way this writer writes. The story was well told with unexpected twists. Simple things were often described in such interesting ways. I’m def ordering more from this author!

Amazing story well told

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Once again, eve chase writes a brilliant book.
Read this in 3 days
intense, sweet and relatable.
loved the story and the ending
brilliant
narration.....a must listen

love love love

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Really enjoyed every word of this story, didn’t want it to end, Sort of book that gets you really involved with the characters.

Wonderful

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