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The Minotaur

By: Barbara Vine
Narrated by: Siân Thomas
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Kerstin Kvist didn't know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand, house. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: living at home with the widowed Mrs. Cosway were her four daughters and a son who haunted the house. Then, just as Kerstin was getting some inkling of what was going on, a stranger sets the family on a path to self-destruction...

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I do love these stories about dysfunctional, posh families from the past. This one had an engaging plot, but it petered out, rather than ending with a flourish.

Quite an odd yet evocative read

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Extremely well read . Barbara Vine is , for me, so much better than Ruth Rendell! Compared with dull old Wexford, this is a really original and compelling set of characters whose awful and various dysfunctions are mesmerising.

Fascinating story

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really enjoyable story. great characters .highly recommended finishedv in one day. one of my favourite rendell books .

Great book

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Great story, good characters and brilliant narration. Thoroughly enjoyed this novel and found it quite absorbing.

Great story

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There is a slow build throughout the story with tension building - I enjoyed the pace, couldn’t stop listening - nearly finished the ironing . Some of the characters are unbelievably awful people that make you shout at them.

I enjoyed it

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