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The Mash House

By: Alan Gillespie
Narrated by: Angus King
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Infused with love, addiction and free-pouring measures of single malt, The Mash House is perfect for fans of Fargo and The Godfather.

Cullrothes, in the Scottish Highlands, where Innes hides a terrible secret from his girlfriend, Alice, a gorgeous, cheating, lying schoolteacher. In the same village, Donald is the aggressive distillery owner, who floods the country with narcotics alongside his single malt; when his son goes missing, he becomes haunted by an anonymous American investor intent on purchasing the Cullrothes Distillery by any means necessary. Schoolgirl Jessie is trying to get the grades to escape to the mainland, while Grandpa counts the days left in his life.

This is a place where mountains are immense and the loch freezes in winter. A place with only one road in and out. With long storms and furious midges and a terrible phone signal. The police are compromised, the journalists are scum and the innocent folk of Cullrothes tangle themselves in a fermenting barrel of suspicion, malice and lies.

The Mash House uses multiple narratives to weave together the parallel lives of individuals in the village. Each fractured by the fears and uncertainty in their own minds.

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The overall plot was really messy, unclear and pretty pointless. I've now finished it, after going over some of the chapters multiple times, and still can not form logical links between the characters other than they live in the same town.
The only reason I kept going is that I love Angus King's performances. Sadly, this book was not for me.

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The accent of the narrator was consistently easy on the ear. The description of the relationship between a teenager and her grandfather was endearing, as interactions between other characters a little strange, but convincing. However the story ended abruptly with unfinished and unsatisfactory conclusions.

Different interactions between characters

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there where a lot of POVs so was hard to keep up sometimes. other than that it was a fantastic story

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I found this read to be quite disjointed, and large gaps were left in the storyline which left me a little frustrated. I felt as though the ending was rushed, and could have done with a few more chapters to 'round things off'. However, the narration by Angus King is faultless.

Enjoyed, but...

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I appreciate this was a story but all those butters in one tiny village !!! And no conclusion to any of it really
If it wasn’t for Angus king narrating I wouldn’t have finished it

What a strange story

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