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Mr Cadmus

By: Peter Ackroyd
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
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Summary

Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered.

The fates of the two cousins and Mr Cadmus, and those of Little Camborne and Caldera, become inextricably enmeshed. Long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface, drawing all into a vortex of subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem...and murder.
©2020 Peter Ackroyd (P)2020 Canongate Books Ltd
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Overall Disappointing

A great start, wonderful cast of characters, and excellent writing but the story became increasingly unsatisfactory and the ending was deeply disappointing. Shame after such a good start. I listened on Audible and found the reading awful, which did not help. Cadmus sounded smarmy and unliveable, and the two women were given ‘comedy’ voices, which were at odds with the very good dialogue.

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Worth persevering with

Started slowly and seemed dull but in lieu of anything else I gave it a second go and then rather enjoyed it. A few ‘continuity’ slip ups in the story and the West Country accents were, as ever, really annoying but a good bedtime listen.

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