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1689

The Haunting of Hadlow House, Book 1

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1689

By: Amy Cross
Narrated by: Joan Walker
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All Richard Hadlow wants is a happy family and a peaceful home. Having built the perfect house deep in the Kent countryside, now all he needs is a wife. He's about to discover, however, that even the most perfectly-laid plans can go horribly and tragically wrong.

The year is 1689 and England is in the grip of turmoil. A pretender is trying to take the throne, but Richard has no interest in the affairs of his country. He only cares about finding the perfect wife and giving her a perfect life. But someone–or something–at his newly-built house has other ideas. Is Richard's new life about to be destroyed forever?

Hadlow House is brand new, but already there are strange whispers in the corridors and unexplained noises at night. Has Richard just been unlucky, is his new wife Rebecca simply imagining things, or is a dark secret from the past about to rise up and deliver Richard's worst nightmare? Who wins when the past and the present collide?

1689 is the first audiobook in the Haunting of Hadlow House series, which tells the story of one haunted house over the centuries from its construction to the present day. All the lives, all the souls, all the tragedies... and all the ghosts.

©2003 Amy Cross (P)2003 W. F. Howes Ltd Ghosts Horror Haunted Scary Marriage

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Chilling in parts but overall less than satisfying. Perhaps the odd anachronism puts me of too much? But then again, did one person ask another if they have a phorograph?

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I barely finished the book, didn't want to waste the credit spent on it but did not enjoy this book.
The narration and writing was good enough that I would have happily continued listening until half way into the book the cannibalism and talk of self-harm/mutaltion put me off, I found it to be too vile, disgusting, and uncomfortable to listen to.
I feel there should be a content warning for these topics as there was no mention of it in the blurb or tags. I would not recommend this very graphic book to anyone of stable mind.

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