Gallant
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Narrated by:
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Julian Rhind-Tutt
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By:
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V. E. Schwab
About this listen
From the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and A Darker Shade of Magic comes a stand-alone novel where The Secret Garden meets Stardust.
Sixteen-year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, her father by degrees and her voice was a thing she never had to start with.
She grew up at Merilance School for Girls. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she’s never met, her father’s older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Her uncle is dead. The estate is empty save for the servants. Olivia is permitted to remain, but must follow two rules: don’t go out after dusk and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate’s western edge. Beyond it is another realm, ancient and magical, which calls to Olivia through her blood.
©2022 Victoria Schwab (P)2022 HarperCollins PublishersCritic reviews
"A haunting and beautifully tilled garden of darkness, Gallant unearths the shadows - webs of family history, the price of deadly bargains, and the secrets we guard - a triumphant tale that can’t be missed." (Dhonielle Clayton, best-selling author)
Part mystery, part horror, part coming-of-age story, Schwab blends these genre conventions masterfully to create something unique, riveting and truly unputdownable. This is YA writing at its very best.
I shall be recommending this book to anyone and everyone for years to come.
The perfect novel
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enjoyable read.
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Though a short quick read/listen Schwab has again written a beautiful yet hauntingly sad book. A story of family secrets, finding one's self and the inevitability of death.
Schwab has a way of making you think deeply about life.
And as the dedication in the book says
'To those who go looking for doors, are brave enough to open the ones they find, and sometimes bold enough to make their own.'
Another 5 🌟 read this year! 🖤
Gothic, Dark but so, so, so beautiful! 🖤
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Wow! What a story! A must read/listen!!!
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BUT, I will say, I loved this book! And I think listening to the audiobook helped in that. The performance was brilliant: Rhind-Tutt has the perfect tone for it and I think that’s the capturing element that others might’ve missed by reading it without the audiobook. It made it better and I really enjoyed listening to it!
The audiobook makes this book!
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