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Foxlowe

By: Eleanor Wasserberg
Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
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Summary

A compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cult

WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE?

Green and Blue are sisters.

Foxlowe is home. Outside is Bad.

Green understands.

Why can’t Blue?

‘Will lure you in – then cut to the kill’ Guardian

‘Wonderfully tense’ Emerald Street

‘To read Foxlowe is not unlike wandering through Foxlowe itself on some long night: I felt never quite certain where the corridors might take me, nor whom I might meet on turning a corner; and in the final moments I found myself hurtling down a flight of steps into the darkSarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent

‘The ending is like a punch to the throat’ The i

©2016 Eleanor Wasserberg (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Critic reviews

‘This fable will lure you in – then cut to the kill’ Sarah Perry, Guardian

‘Meticulously conceived and darkly compelling. Underpinning the claustrophobic horror is a parable of unchecked sibling rivalry, a girl’s desperate need for motherly love and the knotted consequences of childhood trauma’ Observer

‘A richly atmospheric Gothic debut . . . meticulous, intimate and compelling. Foxlowe may give up its secrets, in the end, but it never gives up its hold’ Irish Times

‘An accomplished debut . . . the ending [is] like a punch to the throat’ Independent

‘Unsettling and persuasive, impressively well executed and, at the last, utterly disturbing. I'm still flinching away from thinking about the final scene’ Alison Flood, Lovereading

‘Mesmerising, gripping and beautifully written. It completely sweeps you up from beginning to end. I loved it' Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat

‘Wasserberg has a strong and distinctive voice and this is an excellent debut’ Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go

‘An extraordinary, astonishing story of a girl's longing for motherly love. Beautifully harrowing, and powerfully haunting, it is the most heartbreaking tale I have read this year’ Liz Nugent, author of Unravelling Oliver

‘I thoroughly enjoyed this vivid and claustrophobic coming-of-age debut’ Tasha Kavanagh, author of Things We Have in Common

‘Dissonant, haunting and superbly atmospheric. An immensely subtle and profoundly affecting debut’ Paraic O’Donnell, author of The Maker of Swans

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Overall very much enjoyed this book - the story drew me in immediately and kept me interested throughout. Very interesting characters, compelling plot. Feeling a little let down by the ending though, which really is a disappointment considering how I was feeling right up until the epilogue.

The narration was good, though a couple times had a difficult time following which character was speaking due to the lack of contrast in dialogue narration (that said, much prefer this to over-blown voices). Also, the pronunciation of 'says' in the latter part of the book started to become grating.

All in all I do recommend the book and I'm sure I'll listen to it again in the future.

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