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Perfectly Preventable Deaths
- Perfectly Preventable Deaths, Book 1
- Narrated by: Alison McKenna
- Series: Perfectly Preventable Deaths, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction
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Summary
Twin sisters. An isolated community. Generations of dark secrets....
Sixteen-year-old twins Madeline and Catlin move to a new life in Ballyfrann, a strange isolated Irish town, a place where the earth is littered with small corpses and unspoken truths. A place where, for generations, teenage girls have gone missing in the surrounding mountains. As distance grows between the twins - as Catlin falls in love, and Madeline begins to understand her own nascent witchcraft - Madeline discovers that Ballyfrann is a place full of predators. And when Catlin falls into the gravest danger of all, Madeline must ask herself who she really is and who she wants to be - or, rather, who she might have to become to save her sister.
Critic reviews
"Sullivan has an eye for the uncanny, a taste for the macabre, and a gift for beautiful prose. Perfectly Preventable Deaths is her best book yet." (Louise O'Neill)
"This is the novel the recent Sabrina reboot wishes it could be - a thrilling, eerie exploration of sisterhood, first love and dark powers hiding out of sight." (Dave Rudden)
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- 19-05-22
Beautifully written
Beautifullly written. A really lovely story. And the voice acting is also on point.