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Lasting Damage

By: Sophie Hannah
Narrated by: Emma Kay, Simon Slater
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It's 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; she saw the estate agent's board in the front garden less than six hours ago. Soon Connie is clicking on the 'Virtual Tour' button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all.

She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, there's a woman lying face down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband, Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room….

©2011 Sophie Hannah (P)2011 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks Crime Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

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love the story as good as Sophie hannah books always are. the narration is fine apart from one thing. the female narrator changes her volume so much, multiple times a sentence which meant if you had the volume high enough to hear the whispering you get deafened half a second later when she starts yelling only for it to go back to a hardly audible whisper a second later.

couldn't hear half of it.

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Great start & good plot..but really lost its way & ended up not knowing what was going on, poorly explained & finished unsatisfied

Good start but just lost it at the end

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I have just discovered Sophie Hannah and downloaded 4 of her books in a row. I have loved them. Whilst you think you know where the stories are going there are good twists built in. I love the humanity of the characters, and the fact the stories are told through differentg characters as well as third party. However, for some reason the main character in this book drives me to distraction. I sort of understand her and to some extent sympathise although her actions verge on hysteria. Over the course of the story,however, I think the reason for the irritation is the narrator voices her character in a whisper. Both narrators are excellent and I don't wish to put anyone off but the whispering......aahhhh. I would recommend this author and have really enjoyed her books so far even if listened to in the wrong order. I have already added the last two to my wish list

Brilliant (but whispering annoying)

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An excellent audio book. The pace of the story is a little slow in the begining but it builds and builds. The characters are well developed, the story is imaginative and the book is very well written. Narration is also good, especially Simon Slater. One negative is the amount of swearing - too much and so unnecessary. Highly recommended.

Imaginative and Enjoyable

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Great story with excellent narration. Just sorry it came to an end. One of the best books I have listened to this year.

Great Book.

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Great story with challenging twists (I thoghtcit was going to be a ghost story!). The detectives were far more realistic than in some stories I have listened to lately

A jolly good story,well told.

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not to my taste and I struggled. hlUnfortunately couldn'tfinish it as I was totally uninspired!

not my taste

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I've enjoyed Sophie Hannah's other books but found this one repetitive and unbelievable. The characterisation is very far fetched and the storyline is hard to swallow. Not one of her successes.

Unnecessarily complicated

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First half is very good, but the second half is just a long reveal. Kit's voice is very annoying.

Book of two halves

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What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The story hinges on the most contrived plot device I've ever read. Two separate police forces are actually meant to take seriously the claims of our protagonist - Connie - that she saw a dead body during a search of an estate agency website in the early hours of the morning...which has then disappeared.
We're then into the realms of fantasists, liars, game-players - useful devices for a 'psychological thriller' when the stretching of credibility beyond snapping point covers up the inadequacies of the story-telling.
By the end, when over-long - and still incredible - explanations are being made about what has happened and, apparently, why, I was past caring. If I'd not been in the middle of a marathon decorating task, I'd have given up.

Would you ever listen to anything by Sophie Hannah again?

On the basis of Lasting Damage, certainly not.

How could the performance have been better?

The narration was also less than wonderful, with, on many, many occasions, the emphasis on the wrong words, or missing altogether, when emphasis was needed.

Contrived and convoluted

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