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Emily Noble's Disgrace by Mary Paulson-Ellis

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Emily Noble's Disgrace

Narrator
Tracy Wiles
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Publish Date
19 August 2021
Run Time
9 hours 11 minutes
Format
Audiobook

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What to expect

'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail

'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet Sister

The case is unexceptional, that is what I know. A house full of stuff left behind by a dead woman, abandoned at the last . . .


When trauma cleaner Essie Pound makes a gruesome discovery in the derelict Edinburgh boarding house she is sent to clean, it brings her into contact with a young policewoman, Emily Noble, who has her own reasons to solve the case.

As the two women embark on a journey into the heart of a forgotten family, the investigation prompts fragmented memories of their own traumatic histories – something Emily has spent a lifetime attempting to bury, and Essie a lifetime trying to lay bare.

Emily Noble’s Disgrace is the third novel from Mary Paulson-Ellis, the bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker, a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year.

Critics Review

  • Paulson-Elis writes with poetry and compassion about the forgotten and overlooked . . . A brilliant, original read

    Daily Mail

  • Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped through all its unexpected twists and turns

    Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet Sister

  • This book is a swoon and slither of silk with the grit of salt underneath. Mary Paulson-Ellis is a genius at peeling away the layers and slowly, skilfully putting flesh on the bones of an extraordinary, sinuous story

    Sarah Hilary, author of Fragile

  • Superb

    Daily Mail

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  • The territory of the dead — and the objects they leave behind — is the subject of this beautifully written, compelling contemporary gothic novel. Mary Paulson-Ellis strips back the secrets and lies hiding within one house with a deft touch

    Andrew Wilson, author of I Saw Him Die

  • The author writes with such compassion about people and there is poetry in her prose

    Prima

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Details

Author
Mary Paulson-Ellis
Narrator
Tracy Wiles
Duration
9 hours 11 minutes
Release Date
19 August 2021
ISBN
9781529036213
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Genre
Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss

Synopsis

'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet SisterThe case is unexceptional, that is what I know. A house full of stuff left behind by a dead woman, abandoned at the last . . .When trauma cleaner Essie Pound makes a gruesome discovery in the derelict Edinburgh boarding house she is sent to clean, it brings her into contact with a young policewoman, Emily Noble, who has her own reasons to solve the case. As the two women embark on a journey into the heart of a forgotten family, the investigation prompts fragmented memories of their own traumatic histories – something Emily has spent a lifetime attempting to bury, and Essie a lifetime trying to lay bare.Emily Noble’s Disgrace is the third novel from Mary Paulson-Ellis, the bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker, a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year.

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