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The Sleeper

A Novel

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The Sleeper

By: Gillian White
Narrated by: Lynne Jenson
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The sins of the past haunt an isolated farmhouse as a snowstorm rages outside . . . It’s not shaping up to be a very merry Christmas. Clover Moon feels trapped in her life as a farmer’s wife. She certainly doesn’t enjoy hosting Fergus’s mother, Violet, who always finds new ways to publicly humiliate her unsatisfactory daughter-in-law. But would Violet ever seek a more violent way of expressing her disapproval?

Violet is a medium, and the voices of the dead sometimes encourage her to do disturbing things. During her stay at the farmhouse, she claims to sense an intrusive presence. Fergus then discovers the dead body of a woman floating in their flooded cellar, and the elderly Miss Bates, a resident of a nearby senior home and a client of Violet’s, is missing . . . With her acute sense of human nature and gift for suspense, reminiscent of Barbara Vine, Gillian White will leave you guessing until the very end.

©1998 Gillian White (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Crime Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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Not good. The story hard to follow. The narrator used awful intonation. I am glad it was free!

Dont waste your time!

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Having enjoyed other books by this author I was looking forward to this. Unfortunately however, I’m am unable to finish the book, because the readers performance is truly appalling. Such a shame to have a book so poorly read.

Awful Narration

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I usually love her writing but the narration was so so bad I just couldn't listen anymore .
shrill , infuriating voices for the different characters made it an unbearable listen.. ..
I felt cheated from a good story and the annoyance lingered with the ridiculous children's hour characters ringing in my ears for ages!!!!

Had to Ditch this book before chapter 4 !

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I wanted to be able to finish this book because I'm sure there's a good story in there somewhere, but the narration is awful and I eventually gave up. The narrator has an accent which is all over the place, and the pronunciation of some words is like she's never heard them before. The squeaky little girl voices are particularly unbearable.

Unbearable narration

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By far the worst audible book I have ever tried to listen to. Narrator is awful. I not sure if the plot gets any better I gave up after chapter five.

Terrible but

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I found this story to be very boring and it was not helped by the annoying and exaggerated narration.

yawn

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I got as far as chapter six and still have no idea what was going on ,the absurdly awful voice of the narrator was ear gratingly painful and frankly confusingly creepy .
time I'll never get back

awful narrator even worse plot

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Shockingly bad in every way
story was bad narration was shocking only finished to see if it would make sense it didn’t!

The worst!

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sorry but every sentence is long winded and the reader drove me mad with the voice and attempted accents. I couldn't finish the book. would reccomend you miss this one and I never give reviews condemning a title, this is a first

painful

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I found the narration of this book very off putting. I really had to work to continue with this book - I abandoned and then came back to it

Dreadful narration

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