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The Midnight Hour

By: Eve Chase
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt, Bert Seymour
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Brought to you by Penguin.

A novel from Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage.

A glittering family. A Notting Hill house. Step into their secrets...

Notting Hill, London. Lou Parker's famous mother walks out of their pink front door and doesn't return home by midnight, or the midnight after... Looking after her little brother, trying to piece together where their mother might be, Lou ventures into a different world - far from the fancy terraces - filled with ramshackle antique shops, shadowy figures. A place where time seems to have stopped. And Lou must protect her brother. At all costs.
Twenty-one years - 7665 midnights - later. The new owner of a Notting Hill house starts excavating a basement, oblivious to what might lie beneath. While in a writer's Saint-Germain apartment, a mobile phone rings...and the clock starts ticking again.

Sweeping from vibrant London streets to the boulevards of Paris to an old English country house, The Midnight Hour is a story about the dark secrets hidden within a golden family - and a woman desperately trying to turn back the hands of time before it's too late.

©2024 Eve Chase (P)2024 Penguin Audio
City Life Family Life Historical Urban Exciting Heartfelt England

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Critic reviews

Mesmerising - a book you want to race back to (Lisa Jewell)
Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master (Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Just Another Missing Person)
A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets — the perfect summer read (Kate Morton)
Evocative, beautifully written and absolutely gripping, The Midnight Hour is sensational - her best yet (Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn’t Call)
An engrossing, atmospheric and beautifully written story of a woman trying to turn back the hands of time. I always love an Eve Chase, but this is my favourite so far (Anna Mazzola, author of The Clockwork Girl)
An exquisitely-written, immersive mystery full of loss and longing and boho glamour with a sharp undercurrent of darkness. Brings back to life a Notting Hill that has long since disappeared (Tammy Cohen)
I adored every word of this beautifully written, immersive family mystery (Gill Paul)
So vivid, it's like a time machine (Tasmina Perry)

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A gripping read

I loved this audio book that took me a few chapters to really get involved with the story but then found difficult to stop listening.

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love love love

Once again, eve chase writes a brilliant book.
Read this in 3 days
intense, sweet and relatable.
loved the story and the ending
brilliant
narration.....a must listen

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more twist and turns than a rollercoster! Brilliant!

Eve has you hooked within the first chapter until the end. With depth of characters and story line. It's a rollercoster of mystery and emotion and when you think the story is heading one way bam! Sharpe right turn and off you go in another direction. Brilliant book couldn't stop listening to it.

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interesting characters and storyline

I enjoyed the twists and turns of the story. the characters were interesting.
would recommend

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Emmersive

Simply a very attractive gripping story. Loved the attention to detail and brilliantly narrated. A love story- a mystery and satisfying conclusion. Perfect.

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very good but who is Lou

lovely book but the back of the book talks about Lou Parker? and not Maggie Parker.

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Wonderful

Really enjoyed every word of this story, didn’t want it to end, Sort of book that gets you really involved with the characters.

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One for the young at heart.

The initial premis was engaging for the first half and when that became thread bare it could no longer sustain the truly selfish brats that give the middle class a bad name. I might have appreciated the mawkish romance in my teens but maturity can see this nonsense for what it is. However, and this a big However, the narrator was superb and will look out other books she as read.

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Nicely written and narrated

A good story which flows well all through. Narrator varies her voice for different characters which makes it much easier to listen to. Characters are fairly realistic.
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Draws you in

Wasn’t sure at first, but the story draws you in and you want to find out what happens. A few surprises on the way.

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