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The White Horse

By: Rebecca Harrison
Narrated by: Joanna Swan
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Born a peasant, raised a Lady, Charlotte does not know which she is, but she does know what she wants to be: a great composer.

Her talent is remarkable, but when she turns 18, her dead father's wife sells her piano and throws her out. Charlotte becomes a governess in a gothic mansion, where a handsome and mysterious widower grieves his dead wife.

The mansion looks upon the White Horse of Uffington where Charlotte had a strange vision as a child. A haunted place of folktales and fog and memories. Memories of wives who died young, generation after generation.

And a White Lady who haunts the mist.
©2023 Robert P. Ottone (P)2023 Robert P. Ottone
Gothic
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Beautiful immersive gothic story

It is one thing to read a gothic novel with all the tropes in play ... it is quite another to hear it read to you, to be fully immersed in the story and the world. The blurb would probably not have sold it to me (and that's okay) but Joanna's performance is so - I want to say engulfing. Immersive. Stories - surround sound. Having put off (mostly) listening to any (apart from those that I've written! lol) I am now sold on the idea of audio books.
The story stands up well and I was hooked all the way through - if you're interested in this, set aside five hours to listen to it straight through, it's that good. Joanna conveys the pathos and poignancy beautifully. There are some wonderful lines (no spoilers) such as 'cartographer of time' and the author's use of musical notation to describe the viewpoint character is brilliant. There is great hope and sadness, beauty, in this work, both in the writing and in Joanna's delivery. Having just finished listening to it, I am already missing being in that world.

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