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Magpie Lane

By: Lucy Atkins
Narrated by: Susie Riddell
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About this listen

When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers.

As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging - an eerie and ancient house - a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother.

But is Dee telling the whole story? Is her growing friendship with the eccentric house historian, Linklater, any cause for concern? And most of all, why was Felicity silent?

Roaming Oxford's secret passages and hidden graveyards, Magpie Lane explores the true meaning of family - and what it is to be denied one.

©2020 Lucy Atkins (P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited Detective Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Exciting Scary Highlander

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Critic reviews

"Enthralling...creepy and compelling." (The Times)

"Deliciously dark." (Alexandra Shulman)

"A gorgeously satisfying triumph." (Lucy Mangan)
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this was brilliant, right until the epilogue where it seemed rushed and unfinished. I can only assume (and hope) that there's a second book to come. outstanding narration. highly recommended, despite the ending

excellent except

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I was not sure about this one at first I think it Plays Faster than my Latest Listens so the Narration sounded a bit odd at first I realised it was Too fast
After Adjustments it sounded just fine and it turned out to be a good listen After all I did a complete day and it was Blissful.
The Characters were a good. I won’t spoil it but it’s worth a listen.Something a bit different.

Quite Good Actually!

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The story is very predictable and the unnecessarily in-depth detail about Oxford is boring.

Very predictable

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I loved this story. Full of suspense and emotion. Brilliantly narrated, each character clearly definable. Highly recommended.

Superb!!

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Good story and well read. Just felt a little like they were dragging it out a bit at some points during the book.

Good!

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