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Windmill Hill

By: Lucy Atkins
Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
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One night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director causes an international scandal that wrecks Astrid's glittering stage career, and her marriage. Her ex-husband, the charismatic Scottish actor Magnus Fellowes, goes on to find global fame, while Astrid retreats to a disintegrating Sussex windmill.

Now 82, she lives there still, with a troupe of dachshunds and her long-suffering friend, Mrs Baker, who came to clean twenty years ago and never left. But the past is catching up with them. There has been an 'Awful Incident' at the windmill; the women are in shock. Then Astrid hears that Magnus, now on his death bed, is writing a tell-all memoir. Outraged, she sets off for Scotland, determined to stop him.

Windmill Hill is the story of two very different women, both with painful pasts, and their eccentric friendship - deep, enduring, and loyal to the last.

©2023 Lucy Atkins (P)2023 Quercus Editions Limited Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Marriage Celebrity

Critic reviews

"It was an utter joy to relish Atkins's wonderfully skilled and unobtrusive writing and lose myself in the mystery." (Sarah Perry)

"An utterly compelling read." (Claire Fuller)

"Sly, witty and gripping.... I loved it." (Naomi Alderman)
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Why do authors want their readers to work so hard? The complicated structure of this amazing book spoils it - like a jig saw of wonderful characters, storylines, incidents that you have to unravel. Maybe it better off the page but the narration is wonderful. Just love the characters and the Dickensian range and quality - it’s funny, fascinating but frustrating. So annoying . might have to listen to it all over again because I just love the main character.

There’s a great book in there - if you can find it!

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I enjoyed much about this book. It needs a better edit as sometimes things were repeated unnecessarily. The performance was good with the exception of the Scottish accent which was terrible

Good listen

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Love love love this book. Great story by Lucy Atkins and a great reader too.

Fabulous!

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I loved the twists and turns of this engaging story and while it does roam backwards and forwards and to and fro, I never had any problem following the narrative. My only issue is with the slightly woeful Scottish and American accents which grated for me and distracted from a very important part of the story - but it didn’t put me off listening.

I loved this book

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Beautiful writing - wonderful storytelling - fantastic novel, definitely Lucy Atkins’s best so far. Maggie Ollerenshaw is an excellent narrator. Thanks to all!

Utterly wonderful

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