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The Cursed Wife
- Author
- Pamela Hartshorne
- Narrator
- Rachel Atkins
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 8 March 2018
- Run Time
- 10 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The Cursed Wife by Pamela Hartshorne is a page-turning, psychological thriller set in Elizabethan London.
Curses cannot be silenced . . .
Mary lives a contented life as wife to a wealthy merchant in Elizabethan London. But there's a part of her past she can’t forget . . . As a small girl she was cursed for causing the death of a vagrant child, a curse that predicts that she will hang.
Sometimes the happiest households are not what they seem, and Mary's carefully curated world begins to falter. Mary’s whole life is based on a lie. Is she the woman her husband believes her to be?
One rainy day she ventures to London's Cheapside, where her past catches up with her . . . Suddenly the lies and deception she has so fought to hide begin to claw to the surface.
Critics Review
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‘Addictive, atmospheric and completely enjoyable'
Julie Cohen
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‘Powerful and thrilling . . . You won't be able to rest until the end’
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‘Authentic, vivid and gripping’
Kate Riordan
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Details
- Author
- Pamela Hartshorne
- Narrator
- Rachel Atkins
- Duration
- 10 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 March 2018
- ISBN
- 9781509859337
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Psychological thriller
Synopsis
The Cursed Wife by Pamela Hartshorne is a page-turning, psychological thriller set in Elizabethan London.Curses cannot be silenced . . .Mary lives a contented life as wife to a wealthy merchant in Elizabethan London. But there's a part of her past she can’t forget . . . As a small girl she was cursed for causing the death of a vagrant child, a curse that predicts that she will hang. Sometimes the happiest households are not what they seem, and Mary's carefully curated world begins to falter. Mary’s whole life is based on a lie. Is she the woman her husband believes her to be?One rainy day she ventures to London's Cheapside, where her past catches up with her . . . Suddenly the lies and deception she has so fought to hide begin to claw to the surface.
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