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Fell
Narrated by:
Vicky Hall
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Vicky Hall
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Jenn Ashworth
About this listen
When Annette Clifford returns to her childhood home on the edge of Morecambe Bay, she despairs: the long-empty house is crumbling, undermined by two voracious sycamores. What she doesn't realise is that she's not alone: her arrival has woken the spirits of her parents, who anxiously watch over her, longing to make amends. Because as the past comes back to Jack and Netty, they begin to see the summer of 1963 clearly, when Netty was desperately ill and a stranger moved in. Charismatic, mercurial Timothy Richardson, with his seemingly miraculous powers of healing, who drew all their attention away from Annette... Now, they must try to draw another stranger towards her, one who can rescue her.
Blurring the boundaries between the corporeal and spirit worlds and subtly echoing the myth of Baucis and Philemon, this is an eerily beautiful, evocative and highly original novel, which underlines the eternal potency of hope.
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Critic reviews
A disturbing, precisely rendered tale of charisma, misplaced faith and transgenerational trauma, with a touch of the supernatural . . . [it] brings to mind the claustrophobic, suburban world of Dennis Potter's great play Brimstone and Treacle. (Alex Clark)
Headily atmospheric and luminously written. Ashworth's narrative is packed with the pungent smells of the sea and decay . . . her pages are threaded with original, arresting images . . . not many writers could bind the supernatural and the literary with such lightness of touch (Francesca Angelini)
Ashworth's gift for capturing the quirky ordinariness of life is as sharp here as it is in her previous novels . . . Dark, compelling, beautifully written, Fell adds another powerful story to the mythology of our strange hinterlands. (Andrew Michael Hurley)
A beautifully written book which cleverly blurs fantasy and realism. (David Mitchell)
Despite the ethereal narrators, the book's triumph is in the corporeal, the ache of the mundane, the beauty of small things. The characters have a poetry of the ordinary - a brokenness reminiscent of Alan Bennett that makes them flesh and blood. (Ruth McKee)
There's magic in this Lancashire-set novel . . . Atmospheric [and] empathic (Stephanie Cross)
This marvellous novel is both haunted and haunting, as Ashworth expertly blurs the boundaries between the past and the present, the homely and the uncanny, the quick and the dead. Touching on profound questions of myth, mortality and redemption, it is both sinister and beautiful - and ultimately tender.
Eerie and lyrical - prepare to be haunted by this innovative novel.
Narrated by Vicky Hall.
I went into this book knowing nothing about the story or the author, and selected it purely because it is narrated by my favourite actress, Vicky Hall.
Despite it being in a genre I'm not too familiar with, I very much enjoyed the story. The eerie darkness sucked me in, held my attention, and kept me listening, wanting to know both what was going to happen next, and how things were going to end.
In my eyes Vicky is a total star, deftly switching between spot-on accents, and delivering the requisite emotion, passion, and tenderness.
She truly was telling the story, and not just reading words from a page.
It was great to discover that this amazing visual actress is also a master storyteller! I would love to hear more novels read by her.
Congratulations to both Jenn Ashworth and Vicky Hall.
5 out of 5!
A Great Story Narrated By My Favourite Actress.
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And yes, it has ghosts in it, but I do not see it as a ghost story. Rather, they are a device to tell an extraordinary tale about ordinary people. It allows the author to give a more detailed, more intimate, more sensitive account of the characters, past and present. And, of course, they are part of the big house. The ghosts are not flies on the walls, but almost the walls themselves. They are witnesses to other people’s presents, but they are also their memories, their pasts.
There are some exquisitely subtle instances of deep affection, generosity and humanity in the novel, put together with compassion and delicacy.
The more I got into it, the more I loved this beautiful book. Do persevere with it.
Extraordinary tale about ordinary people
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