The Absolute Book
- Author Elizabeth Knox
- Narrator Anne-Marie Duff
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 18 hours and 21 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Contemporary fantasy, Crime and mystery fiction, Mythical and legendary beings, monsters and creatures, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Urban fantasy.
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What to expect
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Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye.
Which is when Taryn's problems really begin.
Because the police suspect Taryn's involvement in the death.
Worse, others have their eyes on Taryn - those in a faraway place who know what Taryn's family have been carefully hiding in their vast library. The Absolute Book.
They want it - and they want Taryn to help find it.
For the lives of those in more than one world depend upon it . . .
PRAISE FOR THE ABSOLUTE BOOK:
'MIND-BLOWING' LAINI TAYLOR
'ASTOUNDING' FRANCIS SPUFFORD
'Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE ABSOLUTE BOOK has something for everyone: the search for a mysterious book, talking ravens, police detectives and academics, gods and demons, a giant saltwater crocodile, the bucolic English countryside and magical gates to hidden worlds. Here is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful' DEBORAH HARKNESS, author of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES
'Gorgeous. The payoffs and reveals are mind-blowing' LAINI TAYLOR, author of DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE
'An angelic book, an apocalyptic book, an astounding book' FRANCIS SPUFFORD
© Elizabeth Knox 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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An INSTANT CLASSIC, a work to rank alongside other modern masterpieces of fantasy such as Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series or Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Everything fantasy should be: original, magical, well read, compelling
Guardian -
Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE ABSOLUTE BOOK has something for everyone: the search for a mysterious book, talking ravens, police detectives and academics, gods and demons, a giant saltwater crocodile, the bucolic English countryside and magical gates to hidden worlds. Here is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful
author of A Discovery of Witches -
An angelic book, an apocalyptic book, an astounding book
Francis Spufford -
Gripping and hugely ambitious, the broad narrative flood sweeps us on to an extraordinary conclusion
Daily Mail -
Gorgeous. The payoffs and reveals are mind-blowing
author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone -
A marvellous argument for stories. There are Norse gods, references to Merlin, a tour through purgatory and a strange parallel world where magic is real and humans are bit players in the clash of supernatural realms. Bewitching
The Times
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