
The Second Sleep
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Narrated by:
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Roy McMillan
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By:
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Robert Harris
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and Express
WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST?
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'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if possible.' STEPHEN KING
'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative.' SUNDAY TIMES
'Genuinely thrilling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land.
It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination - a remote village in the wilds of Exmoor - before night falls and curfew is imposed.
He's lost and he's becoming anxious as he slowly picks his way across a countryside strewn with the ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm.
What Fairfax cannot know is that, in the days and weeks to come, everything he believes in will be tested to destruction, as he uncovers a secret that is as dangerous as it is terrifying ...
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'[Harris] takes us on a thrilling ride while serving up serious food for thought.' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A truly surprising future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.' EVENING STANDARD
'The book's real power lies in its between-the-lines warning that our embrace of the internet represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It's a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been proud.' DAILY MAIL
'Harris' latest work intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles issues of religion, science and the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you will be left pondering as often as you are page-turning.' HERALD
'A brilliantly imaginative thriller' READER'S DIGEST
Loved this book.
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Mind-boggling
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(1) the ending: rather than being 'rushed' or 'sudden' it has been built up superbly and offers an ingenious twist, especially considering the novel's title, which can be interpreted in at least three different ways
(2) the author explains in fact very clearly how society collapsed, and also, why little of its prior knowledge was preserved, as well as the apparent absence of efforts to rebuild its former model
(3) to those still doubtful about the premise I recommend to take a look at medieval history, especially the roughly one thousand years of apparent regression from the collapse of the Western Roman empire to Renaissance
The Second Sleep is a chillingly disturbing novel in unsettling times and a thoroughly gripping read!
Gripping and disturbing...
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Excellent story from a fascinating perspective
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comments on the book
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The story, context and narrator, for me, made this an audible page turner. It is an intriguing story/plot and quite believable too, considering it's fiction.
This was one of my free introductory books when signing up to Audible, but I would have gladly paid for it also.
An audible page turner.
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excelent
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Wonderful narration by Roy Mcmillan
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Excellent story
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Overall hugely disappointing after a great start.
Unfulfilled
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