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The Brimstone Wedding

By: Barbara Vine
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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Unlike the other residents of Middleton Hall, Stella is elegant, smart, and in control. Only Jenny, her care assistant, knows that she harbours a painful secret, and only she can prevent Stella from carrying it to the grave.

As the women talk, Jenny pieces together the answers to many questions that arise: Why has she kept possession of a house that her family don’t know about? What happened there that holds the key to a distant tragedy?

As Jenny uses the house to meet her lover, she makes some unusual discoveries, but only when Stella leaves Jenny her tape recorder, into which she has recorded the true events of the past, can the truth be finally - and shockingly - revealed.

©1995 Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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Chosen for our book club. Really enjoyed it from start to finish. Juliet does a brilliant job.

Excellent narration

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I thought story very good,just a little too long, but worth a long journey listen

Good story

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Couldn't' put it down. So plausible for someone who's terminally ill and such a good storyline, (if not a bit macabre)

Thoroughly enjoyable read

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I didn’t see that coming…! an engaging story from start to finish. Clever and beautifully written.

Brilliant

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l loved it from. being to end
it was a shame when it finished

Great story

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This is a great tale, and unusual. Two love stories running concurrently, one being lived, the other remembered and recounted, both illicit. The counterpoint works beautifully, and the reveals come slowly, right up to the very end. Juliet Stevenson does the older woman’s narrative voice wonderfully well, but I struggled with the early stages of the story because she is really not suited to the narrating voice of the working class Suffolk girl. Don’t let it put you off, though; it was worth persevering; she is a wonderful reader in every other way.

Lots of atmosphere, and the usual sharp observation of human nature. The rendering of the 1960s Suffolk countryside is wonderful.

Great story

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The story was easy to follow even stopping and starting but kept me wanting to discover now it concluded.

Easy listening story

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very well written, loved the characters, setting, pace and tone. the twist was well thought out

great slow burning story

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This is a cleverly written story that kept me wanting to listen well into the night. However, the narrator kept leaving very long pauses even in the middle of a paragraph, which I found extremely irritating.

great story cleverly written but long pauses

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Though this was written in 1995, it wears very well and much of it is looking back further in time. Of course tape recorders and phone boxes may be obsolete, but love, betrayal and cruelty are timeless. The parallels between the two affairs are clever and the revelation of Gilda's fate is chilling. The weather and scenery add to the threatening atmosphere- Norfolk will never seem the same.

Deeply grim!

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