In the Garden of the Fugitives
- Author Ceridwen Dovey
- Narrator Gabriella Maselli McGrail, Paul English
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 9 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Epistolary fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Psychological thriller.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey, read by Gabriella Maselli McGrail and Paul English.
A literary tour-de-force of power, guilt and obsession - two people stalk each other through the shadowy, tangled web of the past - man and woman caught in a dangerous game of confession, each partly predator and partly prey...
'It has been almost fifteen years. I've thought about you often, mostly unkindly. But there: I have thought about you.'
Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He is older than her, a ghost from her university days, a former benefactor she has tried hard to forget. In his own youth, Royce spent two fateful summers working on a dig in Pompeii with a woman he would later memorialize with a scholarship - the same one that Vita eventually received.
From opposite sides of the world, Royce and Vita enter into an adversarial dance: an attempt to settle old accounts. Profoundly addictive and unsettling, In the Garden of the Fugitives is a thrilling psychological examination of what happens when the lines are blurred between victim and predator, between loyalty and obsession
Critics Review
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This psychological thriller examines what happens when the lines between victim and predator, loyalty and obsession become blurred’
Mail on Sunday -
Spellbinding
Anna Funder -
Precise, cool, complex… [A] meditation on the gift of privilege
Observer -
Dovey does not shy away from bluntly confronting big questions head-on… Trembling with meaning, unsettlingly alive, sweeping both geographically and intellectually; a literary page-turner
Kirkus -
Gracefully constructed
Booklist (starred review)
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