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The Absolute Book
- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Duff
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Taryn Cornick believes her sister, Bea, was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye.
Which is when Taryn's problems really begin.
Because the police suspect Taryn's involvement in the death.
Worse, others have their eyes on Taryn - those in a faraway place who know what Taryn's family have been carefully hiding in their vast library. The Absolute Book.
They want it - and they want Taryn to help find it.
For the lives of those in more than one world depend upon it....
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"Mind-blowing." (laini Taylor)
"Astounding." (Francis Spufford)
"Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, The Absolute Book has something for everyone: the search for a mysterious book, talking ravens, police detectives and academics, gods and demons, a giant saltwater crocodile, the bucolic English countryside and magical gates to hidden worlds. Here is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful." (Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches)
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- Barbie
- 09-09-21
Longwinded
Interesting, but I got quite lost in places and wasn’t entirely sure what was going on.
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- Fiona C
- 20-05-21
absolutely great
a long and tangled tale moving from one world to another effortlessly
well written and well read
very enjoyable
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- Michael and Jane Bochenski
- 16-04-21
A brilliantly crafted new world.
A glowing review in The Guardian Weekly first put me onto this. A brilliantly crafted new world. Superbly narrated. Grippingly mysterious, and with a severe punch to the values we live by in “our” world. It’s excellent. (Michael).
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- Jane E
- 28-06-21
Wonderful!
I love this book - and am now going to buy a physical copy! Beautiful, exciting, and magical. And a fantastic spoken performance by Anne-Marie Duff - an ideal reader with the gift of creating the voices of each disparate character.
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- Abblina
- 01-11-24
One of the best books read this year
Loved the plot loved the narration loved it’s complexity and solution finding to humanity compelling and optimistic
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- rosanne kearney
- 27-04-21
A womans journey of discovery
Super story, great narration I'll be checking out other books read by Anne- Marie Duff! Riveting. Beautiful words in abundance!
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- Nigel Anderson
- 05-03-23
Be patient- it's a great story
Unusual start but great once it gets going, good exploration of the Shay and fairy mythology
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- Domenik
- 28-03-21
Highly reccomended !! A fantastic story.
I enjoyed listening to the narrators voice and she is exceptional actress with believable accents. The story is easy to fall into and took me away which is a great thing during the pandemics restrictions here in the UK.
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- Sophie
- 20-05-23
Might be better as a real book
Anne-Marie Duff's narration is excellent, however the book is long, and the plot seems to move along to quite different scenarios every couple of hours, which makes it confusing and made me disengage a bit with the characters and their stories. There are some interesting scenarios and concepts which do stand out, though and it definitely was good to have on in the background.
I also needed to go back and re-listen to bits, but the book was so long that I didn't have the motivation to do this in the way that I would go back and skim read with an actual book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-08-24
Wowza
Loved this book, It completely captured me the story and the reader were spellbinding. Many long journeys made short! Thank you
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