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The Oversight
Oversight Trilogy (Related to this series)
- Author
- Charlie Fletcher
- Narrator
- Simon Prebble
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 6 May 2014
- Run Time
- 14 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. And their numbers are dwindling further still.
When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she might answer their hopes for a new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall.
In his first novel for adults, Charlie Fletcher (The Stoneheart Trilogy) spins a tale of witch-hunters, supra-naturalists, mirror-walkers and magicians. Meet the Oversight, and remember: when they fall, so do we all.
Critics Review
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Exciting, exhilarating, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realised. This feels like the start of something amazing
M. R. Carey, author of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS
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A highly entertaining fantasy that promises a trilogy worth sinking your teeth into
SciFiNow
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Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre Dickensian wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step
Frances Hardinge, Costa Book of the Year winner
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Told in a kind of compelling and hypnotic poesie that I just lapped up . . . I'll certainly be reading the next one
BoingBoing.net
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A richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane
Adam Roberts
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The Oversight is - and let's be clear here - something very special . . . It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as.
Tor.com
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A remarkable combination of British folklore, brisk pacing and wide-ranging imagination
Kirkus Reviews
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Richly atmospheric (the evil lurks in the background of every paragraph), the book should be a big hit with supernatural-fantasy readers ... the second book can't come soon enough
Booklist (starred review)
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Utterly enthralling: Charles Dickens meets Susanna Clarke
Lou Morgan
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Exciting, exhilarating, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realised. This feels like the start of something amazing.
Mike Carey
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Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step.
Frances Hardinge
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A richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane.
Adam Roberts
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Richly atmospheric (the evil lurks in the background of every paragraph), the book should be a big hit with supernatural-fantasy readers ... the second book can't come soon enough. (starred review)
Booklist
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The Oversight is - and let's be clear here - something very special . . . It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as.
Tor.com
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Details
- Author
- Charlie Fletcher
- Narrator
- Simon Prebble
- Duration
- 14 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 May 2014
- ISBN
- 9781405531610
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Adventure / action fiction, Historical adventure fiction, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Fantasy, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
"The end always comes faster than you think."Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. And their numbers are dwindling further still.When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she might answer their hopes for a new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall.In his first novel for adults, Charlie Fletcher (The Stoneheart Trilogy) spins a tale of witch-hunters, supra-naturalists, mirror-walkers and magicians. Meet the Oversight, and remember: when they fall, so do we all.
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