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Nightwoods by Charles Frazier

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Nightwoods

Author
Charles Frazier
Narrator
Will Patton
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Publish Date
27 September 2011
Run Time
8 hours 45 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

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What to expect

Luce is a solitary young woman, caretaker of an old lodge on the edge of a lake in the mountains of North Carolina that's as isolated as she is. Until her beautiful, gentle sister Lily is murdered, and Luce inherits mute, traumatised twins. Luce knows that if the children come to harm under her care she will never be able to forgive herself, but it takes all her energy to keep them away from a world of dangers: water, fire, axes, snakes . . . And Lily's husband, a chilling killer who is missing a horde of cash, and thinks the twins must have it.

(P)2011 Random House Audio

Critics Review

  • 'What makes it so appealing is the voice of Will Cooper, which is potent, wry, insightful and utterly convincing . . . as rich a fiction as it is an eventful one.'

    Andrew Rosenheim, Time Literary Supplement on THIRTEEN MOONS

  • 'Its narrative has a thoroughly human scale and informs just as much as it moves and entertains'

    Frank Egerton, The Times on THIRTEEN MOONS

  • 'Frazier is a timeless master magician who renders the texture of the landscape, emotion and history of excruciatingly real'

    Time Out on THIRTEEN MOONS

  • A romance of love, of friendship, of family, of land. Frazier has inhaled the spirit of the age and breathes it into the reader's being

    Erica Wagner, The Times on COLD MOUNTAIN

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  • A poetic account of hardship, violence and longing. . . above all a sustained flight of the imagination

    Daily Telegraph on COLD MOUNTAIN

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Details
Author
Charles Frazier
Narrator
Will Patton
Duration
8 hours 45 minutes
Release Date
27 September 2011
ISBN
9781444732078
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Genre
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

Synopsis

Luce is a solitary young woman, caretaker of an old lodge on the edge of a lake in the mountains of North Carolina that's as isolated as she is. Until her beautiful, gentle sister Lily is murdered, and Luce inherits mute, traumatised twins. Luce knows that if the children come to harm under her care she will never be able to forgive herself, but it takes all her energy to keep them away from a world of dangers: water, fire, axes, snakes . . . And Lily's husband, a chilling killer who is missing a horde of cash, and thinks the twins must have it.(P)2011 Random House Audio

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