
Heartstone
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Narrated by:
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Anton Lesser
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By:
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C. J. Sansom
About this listen
Abridged edition.
Heartstone is C. J. Sansom's fifth spellbinding mystery in the Shardlake series.
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis.
Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of "monstrous wrongs" committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth.
Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone; and Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The emerging mysteries around the young ward, and the events that destroyed Ellen's family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne. Events will converge on board one of the King's great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour . . .
Continue the gripping historical series with Lamentation and Tombland.
Critic reviews
"Murder, mystery and turbulent history are expertly twisted together in Sansom’s fifth Tudor crime novel." (Sunday Times Culture)
"CJ Sansom writes with verve and conviction, drawing the reader into the heat and terror of the summer of 1545." (The Daily Express)
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Absolutely, I'd recommend the book, but you really do need to know the previous stories to get the most out of it.Who was your favorite character and why?
I do enjoy Barrack - honest, strong and the common man adding a bit of humour to the formality of some of the words.Have you listened to any of Anton Lesser’s other performances? How does this one compare?
No, but I will keep an eye out for him going forward.Any additional comments?
Anton Lesser - what a wonderful narrator! Great story, great narration, loved it!Super narration
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Spellbinding story
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Abridged ?
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Loved it
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Heartstone
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Gripping story, masterfully read
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If you haven't read one of these yet, I really recommend starting with "Dissolution" and going through in order, but if you start here you'll still enjoy the ride!
Excellent book, well read
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Set in the turbulent period of Henry VIII's reign, this book offers both solid historical fact and an entertaining story about Lawyer Shardlake, a minnow in the hands of his enemies in Henry's court like the powerful Richard Rich.
Anton Lesser has read all the Shardlake series to date and has made them his own now, a better reader cannot be found
To battle
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Would you consider the audio edition of Heartstone to be better than the print version?
First CJ Hanson novel so can't compareWhat other book might you compare Heartstone to, and why?
Phillipa Gregory for the interweaving of history and fictionWhat does Anton Lesser bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
He gives the character's their voice which I can't do in my head.If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Intriguing,murder mystery set in Tudor EnglandAny additional comments?
My first C J Hanson novel but definitely not the last - so glad my friend recommended the novels.. Going to put another on my ipod for a long haul flight - I'd rather listen to a book than watch a movie.Intriguing, historically accurate story.
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Anton Lesser IS Shardlake
Straight onto the next one.
Fantastic
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