The Dream Weavers
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Narrated by:
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Jilly Bond
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By:
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Barbara Erskine
About this listen
The brand-new gripping historical novel from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Lady of Hay!
Mercia, 788 AD
In the grand Saxon halls of Mercia, King Offa rules with cold ambition. His youngest daughter, Eadburh, is destined for an arranged marriage, but with reckless spirit, her heart is taken by a Welsh prince, a man she can never be matched with and who is quickly and cruelly taken from her.
Eadburh inherited her father’s ruthless ways, but it’s the gifts passed down from her mother that are far more dangerous. She is determined to carve her own place in the world, yet her path could cause war.
Offa’s Dyke, 2021
In a cottage hidden amongst the misty Welsh hills of Offa’s Dyke, Bea Dalloway is called to help Simon Armstrong, who is searching for peace. Instead he finds himself disturbed by unsettling noises and visions.
It isn’t long before Bea is also swept up by haunting dreams. The past is whispering to them, calling out for the truth to be told at last. And as dreams and reality weave closer together, Bea and Simon must be strong to resist the pull of the past—and its desire for revenge....
The Sunday Times best-selling author returns with a thrilling tale of lost love, betrayal and secrets that have lain buried over a thousand years....
©2021 Barbara Erskine (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
“Barbara Erskine is an astonishingly good writer. I have always been a massive fan and admirer of her talent. I feel that she has written this book especially for me. It has everything I love, and is so compelling I drop everything to get back to it. Warmth, depth, mystery, magic and the supernatural, I’m just so excited to be engrossed in such a beautiful book!" (Santa Montefiore, best-selling author)
"A dazzling roller-coaster of a book that will thrill, enchant and intrigue those who love history and the supernatural." (Alison Weir, best-selling author)
"The story of Eadburh is brilliantly imagined and the novel is so atmospheric and suspenseful, full of myth and magic and hauntings...such vivid and well-rounded characters. Wild Wales and the contrasting ordered life of the Cathedral are beautifully evoked, too." (Rachel Hore, best-selling author)
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- lorna
- 21-04-21
Fantastic
this book is amazing, historically correct most characters existed..she weaves a tale that allows us to see what may of happened to one of the main character's lives hundreds of years ago x
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- Susie Tisone
- 22-01-23
Good story - reader got all the whispering wrong!
I enjoyed the story and the reader was fine. except for the whispered phrases. There was quite a lot of whispering in the book and every single time, I had to go back and play it again on full volume. Real whispers in an audio book just don’t work! They need to be stage whispers.
Apart from this annoying issue, 4 stars.
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- Zoe mckechnie
- 03-05-21
pilgrimage....
touched my very deepest self. I dream of taking the path one day again listening to this most beautiful book. thankyou thank you thank you xx
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- Lorraine Manning
- 30-04-21
Thoroughly Enjoyable
Lovely story beautifully told and read, my first Barbara Erskine, it won't be my last.
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- Sharron B
- 02-02-22
A wonderful story
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Such a good story from start to end. Every character has a place, whether you liked them or not! The narrator was excellent, instilling the right atmosphere which you could imagine in your mind. I was quite sad for it to end. Highly recommended.
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- Great Greyhounds
- 30-01-22
Enthralling.
Completely absorbing. I was completely drawn in. I feel as if I have lived the story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-05-21
loved it.
As always, with Barbara Erskine, loved this booked. I was totally hooked and sad to have finished it.
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- Kassa
- 12-11-21
Completely Captivating
This book deserves far more than five stars. I was totally absorbed in it from the first word. Barbara Erskine is a brilliant writer. I have read many of her books and this one is just as brilliant as her previous ones. I became involved in the characters in such a way that I felt I was genuinely there; genuinely feeling their feelings and doing the things that they were doing. The way she told the story was so beautiful. Yes they were main characters but what I liked was that she focused on the feelings and thoughts of all the characters so that we knew what each character was thinking and feeling and there wasn’t one main character. I’d like to thank her so much for writing this book. If you love fantasy; the past and ghost stories; you will LOVE this book.
This book came alive for me by Jilly Bond’s brilliant narration. She made each character alive. She gave each one of them their own distinct voice that brought out their ind personality. I got the feeling of each character I have brilliant narration. I thank her for reading it so beautifully.
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- Munchkin1971
- 02-01-22
More like it!
I have been a HUGE fan of B Erskine, since the first book I read (House of Echoes) and I'm pretty sure I have all her books in paperback - some read, others to be read. Howerver the last 3 I have listened to, being Ghost Tree, Darkest Hour and Dream Weavers, I have noticed a lot of repetition. Just across these 3 books, we have 2 clergymen married to psychics, Chichester Cathedral is in a different 2, there are 2 researchers both called Ruth, a Scottish background in another 2...is Erskine running out of subject matter, or gods forbid, losing her touch? The best of these 3 is by far, Dreamweavers, as this takes me back to the more supernatural side, of which I fell in love during House of Echoes. This love of historical research mixed with supernatural fiction led me to collect all of her earlier books, right back to Lady of Hay. I used to wait patiently for each new offering, knowing I would love it. I actually read House of Echoes straight through...I literally couldn't put it down and read it in 3 days. The other 2 books mentioned here are very lacklustre compared to her work in the late 80s and I truly hope it is only a temporary set back.
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- grandma
- 23-05-22
Grandma
Loved it, fantastic story included history, religion, and unsettled souls, quote the mix.
Narrator brilliant and believable!
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