The Asylum
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The Asylum
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Narrated by:
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Rosalyn Landor
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Written by:
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John Harwood
About this listen
A brilliant new Gothic thriller from the acclaimed author of The Ghost Writer and The Séance.
Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor Maynard Straker tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before and then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in London: "Your patient must be an imposter."
Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle’s house? And what has become of her two most precious possessions: a dragonfly pin left to her by her mother and a journal that contains the only record of those missing weeks? Georgina’s perilous quest to free herself takes her from a cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon House and into a web of hidden family ties on which her survival depends.
Here is another delicious read from the author praised by Ruth Rendell as having "a gift for creating suspense, apparently effortlessly, as if it belongs in the nature of fiction."
©2013 John Harwood (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.What the critics say
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Melanie
- 2023-01-04
great read.
love it. listened to it while I was working night shift at a psychiatric hospital 😀
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Maxine
- 2024-12-28
Great story
Good read. Great story. The twists and turns were very unexpected. Go ahead, take a chance and listen.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Langer MD
- 2024-08-08
Serviceable Gothic Tale
John Harwood puts together a very atmospheric 19th-century story about a period-accurate woman thrust into a fascinating twisty-turny "secretive/assumed identity" scenario that keeps readers guessing.
Harwood's writing is capable, his plotting is imaginative, and his somber imagery conveys a mood - but the characters are somewhat cookie-cutter (like something out of a Brontë novel) and the book largely failed to catch my attention. My mind wandered annoyingly frequently.. and that ending🙄
Fortuitously for audiobook aficionados: Reader Rosalyn Landor narrates the book almost flawlessly. She very occasionally betrays some "I am reading a book" disinterest, but her crisp diction, spot-on accents, praiseworthy timbre & cadence, and hyperrealistic voice-acting render this Blackstone Audio Inc. production a legitimate joy to consume.
In toto, 'The Asylum' merits 7.5 stars out of 10. Paying a Credit for this sinuous period drama would be worthy of debate if they asked for one.. but downloading it as a 'Plus' option is a no brainer. Do so immediately.
[NOTE: The climax of this story is laughably ludicrous. So much so that it nearly ruins the novel]
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Clint Lien
- 2022-05-02
Welcome Break
Wonderful narration by Rosalyn Landor.
The story is simple, intriguing enough and a pleasant break from the moral ambiguity of so many stories out there today.
I will give this author another go.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Emily
- 2024-07-05
Very good story
This was a really good book. I’m glad this was a free title as I normally don’t spend credits on books this small. It was a very good story line having you guess why she’s in the asylum throughout the book. The only thing I didn’t like was for a good hour and a half the book is just reading letters back and forth between two people which got kind of boring. I finished the book in about 4 days as it had me wanting more.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Lynne Rutledge
- 2022-02-06
Not for me
Struggled to get engaged with the story. Kept getting distracted and had to keep going backwards. Will not be finishing.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Will Cooper
- 2024-12-09
Convoluted - thankfully it was a free book
Likes: The behaviour of each of the characters was appropriate for the time period that this book is written in. Spoiler- It is refreshing to have a seemingly lesbian (remember the line, “I loved her as a man should love his wife) female heiress of a large estate.
Dislikes: This was a book I wanted to like, but unfortunately there was too much wrong with it to really like it. Although the beginning of the story seems good, towards the end the plot becomes implausible, contrived, and to be honest, quite silly. Plus the author dragged out the story far longer than needed - it’s almost like the author had a quota of how many pages he had to write. Finally, the narrator reading the book was awful. She read so fast and in such a breathy voice it was like she had just run down the stairs and was told she had to read the dictionary out loud in less than a minute.
Recommendation: if the book is free, and you have nothing else to listen to while cleaning, then this book might be ok-ish. Otherwise don’t bother.
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