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Emily Noble’s Disgrace

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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
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
Author Mary Paulson-Ellis
Narrator Tracy Wiles
Duration 9 hours and 11 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529036213
Format Audiobook
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Genre Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Family life fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Availability AU, GB, IE

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