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The Foreshadowing

By: Marcus Sedgwick
Narrated by: Anna Maxwell Martin
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About this listen

 It is 1915. Seventeen-year-old Sasha Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future. Her premonitions show her untold horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and worse still, what will happen to Edgar and Tom. Like the prophetess Cassandra, who foretold the tragedies of Troy, Sasha is trapped by power. No one will believe her. Her family have lost faith in her. She is determined to win them back, whatever the price. And it is a high one - seeing the future is a fate almost too awful to contemplate - for who wants to see the end of their own story...?

Stylishly written in his familiar, poetic prose the story is that of a world full of threat and a child in jeopardy - but with a heroine resourceful enough to try to change the path of Fate.

Read by Anna Maxwell Martin
(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd©2005 Marcus Sedgwick Fiction Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy

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great story from start to finish 😊 looking forward to reading others by the same author

wow!

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engaging, curioua and beautifully read. Difficult to stop reading as there are lots of cliffhangers!

excellent short story

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An engaging short story which held my interest - short enough to listen to in a day. The heroine lives a remarkably charmed life - too much so, perhaps. Much of my enjoyment came from the quality of the narration. I greatly enjoyed the subtlety of the changes in emotion. Such a skill is necessary for a book like this.

An Engaging Reading

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After listening to nearly 2 hours of this, I found myself contemplating where the story was going. I usually like books written by Marcus Sedgwick but found it very difficult to like this one. It reads more like diary entries than a proper story. All to vague and directionless in my opinion.

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