You Let Me In
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Narrated by:
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Claire Rushbrook
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By:
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Camilla Bruce
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Eccentric, infamous and exceedingly wealthy, the romantic novelist Cassandra Tipp has, it seems, vanished.
In her large, rambling house sits a pile of paper addressed to her niece and nephew. It is a letter. Cassie has been a murder suspect twice in her life. Her family have long been convinced of her guilt. Could the letter be her confession? Or might it be her last will and testament? It turns out to be not quite what anyone expected . . .
Instead of any indication of remorse, the letter tells two extraordinary and darkly disturbing stories. One is of their aunt’s life-long relationship with a creature called Pepper-Man - a tale of bloody nights and magical gifts, of children lost to the woods, of husbands made from twigs and leaves and sticks and stones. The other story is that of an abused little girl growing crooked in the shadows. Which story should the niece and nephew believe? And where is Cassie now? Dead in a ditch, or gone from this world . . . and into another?
You Let Me In is at once the tale of a faerie seduction and a story about an abused child. Crossing the boundaries between magic and reality, we are shown our world, judgemental and cruel, and offered glimpses of another, dark and very different place that is hidden to most of us. Both stories might be true. Both stories end in murder . . .
©2020 Camilla Bruce (P)2020 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
Eerie and captivating
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loved
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Brilliant
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Something different.
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A masterpiece of suggestion, fantasy and psychology, this book dances exquisitely along the line of fact and fiction, mesmerising the reader with subtle clues and revelations as the story unfolds. The framing of an unreliable narrator reaching out to the descendants of her broken family is inspired, particularly as we, like the niece and nephew, are also constantly questioning Cassandra's account and considering whether the acclaimed writer is indeed telling the strange and impossible truth, or attempting to manipulate us from beyond the grave or reality itself.
However, don't be fooled into thinking this is purely a fantasy story. In Cassandra's world of the mystical fairy mound and the sinister 'Pepper Man', exists a story brutally founded in reality; a story of violence, lies and cruelty. Its beautifully crafted passages describing water nymphs and flower crowns are juxtaposed by harrowing accounts of a vulnerable little girl, lost, alone and crying out for love.
Sensational storytelling
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