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The Brimstone Wedding
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
Unlike the other residents of Middleton Hall, Stella is elegant, smart, and in control. Only Jenny, her care assistant, knows that she harbours a painful secret, and only she can prevent Stella from carrying it to the grave.
As the women talk, Jenny pieces together the answers to many questions that arise: Why has she kept possession of a house that her family don’t know about? What happened there that holds the key to a distant tragedy?
As Jenny uses the house to meet her lover, she makes some unusual discoveries, but only when Stella leaves Jenny her tape recorder, into which she has recorded the true events of the past, can the truth be finally - and shockingly - revealed.
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- Blackcornish
- 05-05-19
Excellent narration
Chosen for our book club. Really enjoyed it from start to finish. Juliet does a brilliant job.
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- Magikmum
- 24-04-22
Good story
I thought story very good,just a little too long, but worth a long journey listen
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- lekkie
- 11-10-22
Thoroughly enjoyable read
Couldn't' put it down. So plausible for someone who's terminally ill and such a good storyline, (if not a bit macabre)
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- Sam Thorpe
- 03-04-23
Brilliant
I didn’t see that coming…! an engaging story from start to finish. Clever and beautifully written.
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- Penny B
- 10-12-23
Great story
This is a great tale, and unusual. Two love stories running concurrently, one being lived, the other remembered and recounted, both illicit. The counterpoint works beautifully, and the reveals come slowly, right up to the very end. Juliet Stevenson does the older woman’s narrative voice wonderfully well, but I struggled with the early stages of the story because she is really not suited to the narrating voice of the working class Suffolk girl. Don’t let it put you off, though; it was worth persevering; she is a wonderful reader in every other way.
Lots of atmosphere, and the usual sharp observation of human nature. The rendering of the 1960s Suffolk countryside is wonderful.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-01-24
Great story
l loved it from. being to end
it was a shame when it finished
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- Jan
- 16-10-21
A real listening experience
Just loved the story and the narration was perfect. A great story gradually evolving and such a wonderful way to spend a few hours.
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- Jan
- 28-10-21
Brilliant book
The best narration of a brilliant book .the best I have listened to since joining Audible
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- Redglass
- 02-11-23
Long, complex, engaging and ultimately surprising
This seems so very different from Ruth Rendell writing under her own name: a tale of a working-class young(ish) carer developing a warm friendship with one of her charges, a much older and better-off woman. I enjoyed Barbara Vine's leisurely pace and the exploration of emotion and psychology. Towards the end, however, it ventures into typically dark and intense 'Rendell' territory, with the moral confusion and shades of grey that she does so well. I found this one hard to switch off, partly because of the skilled writing and partly because of Juliet Stevenson's exquisite reading. She captures all the nuances of class and locality in the voices of the two main characters, without ever sliding into caricature, and is probably my favourite Audible reader.
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- Emma Gentry
- 25-08-21
Loved this.
First book from this author and loved it. Totally absorbed. Fab narration and will definitely look for more.
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