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The Somnambulist

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Every heart holds a secret...

But some secrets are better left buried.

When seventeen-year old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. While there, Phoebe is drawn to a stranger, the enigmatic Nathaniel Samuels.

When offered the position of companion to Nathaniel's reclusive wife, Phoebe leaves her life in London's East End for Dinwood Court in Herefordshire.

But Phoebe is soon to discover that Dinwood Court may well be haunted - and holds the darkest of truths...

In her gloriously gothic debut, Essie Fox weaves a spellbinding tale of guilt and deception, regret and lost love.

'VIVIDLY COMPELLING, DARK AND DAZZLING.' Katherine Webb, author of The Legacy

Read by Annie Aldington

(p) 2012 Oakhill Publishing

Critics Review

Essie Fox transports us to the Victorian squalor of London's East End for a tale of illegitimacy, incest and theatricality with so many twists that you'll want to read it in one sitting
Cosmopolitan
Vividly compelling, dark and dazzling
Katherine Webb
I am currently reading THE SOMNAMBULIST, a novel which I am enjoying so much that I was up at six this morning to relish it in the peace of my still sleeping household. It has taken me to new worlds, is riven with suspense, has made my imagination wander, and my fingers itch to turn the last page
Jojo Moyes
Paints a vivid picture of Victorian times
Star Magazine
A tale of complicated thespian lives, old secrets and many a twist and turn...an absorbing read, well worth recommending
Bookseller
This is a gutsy page-turning novel with a delightful heroine... larger than life Dickensian characters and generous supply of plot twists and turns. But it is no pastiche. It is an affectionate and knowledgeable homage to the genre and a thumping good read
Historical Novels Review
A gloriously gothic tale of guilt and deception, regret and lost love
Living North
This wonderful debut novel ... is well written with lively and believable characters ... I found this book difficult to put down and look forward to reading more from this very promising author
Yorkshire Gazette & Herald
Author Essie Fox
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 11 hours and 49 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781409144984
Format Audiobook
Publisher Orion
Genre Classic horror and ghost stories, Ghosts and poltergeists, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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