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Hide and Seek

By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
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Appearing in 1854, Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins’s third published novel. At the centre of the plot is the mystery surrounding a deaf and dumb girl known as Madonna, whom the painter Valentine Blyth rescues from her life as a circus performer. But it is only when Blyth’s friend Zack Thorpe rebels against his disciplinarian father and falls into bad company that the secret of Madonna is revealed.

Combining charm and excitement, Hide and Seek is presented in two halves: the first is leisurely and discursive while the second picks up the pace, foreshadowing Collins’s later sensational fiction.

Hide and Seek is persuasively delivered by Nicholas Boulton, who has read several of Collins’s novels, including No Name, Armadale, The Dead Secret, and Man and Wife.

Public Domain (P)2022 Naxos AudioBooks UK Ltd. Classics Historical Fiction Fiction

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It looks like Naxos is recording the complete novels of Wilkie Collins. I certainly hope so if the reader is Nicholas Boulton whose characterisations are a pure delight!

More Collins please

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Everything you could wish for in one book.
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FANTASTIC !!! ,

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Had a great twist - that I definitely didn't guess! Fabulous narration too. Now into my next Wilkie Collins book …

Loved it

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A very good story with excellent characterisation.
It was serious but not depressing.
The narration absolutely superb.

Excellent

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Loved this book. I was hooked from the get go...absolutely superb narration.
I laughed out loud many times...and shed a sentimental tear or two also. All you potential readers have a treat in store. Nicholas Boulton brings this tale to glorious life.

Triple stars for the narrator.

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