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Blackmoor

By: Ed Hogan
Narrated by: Nick Boulton
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 Beth is an albino, half blind, and given to looking at the world out of the corner of her eye. Her neighbours in the Derbyshire town of Blackmoor have always thought she was 'touched', and when a series of bizarre happenings shake the very foundations of the village, they suspect her involvement.

The neighbours say that Beth eats dirt from the flowerbeds, and that smoke rises from her lawn. By the end of the year, she is dead. A decade later her son, Vincent, treated like a bad omen by his father George, is living in a pleasant suburb miles from Blackmoor. There the bird-watching teenager stumbles towards the buried secrets of his mother's life and death in the abandoned village.

©2008 Edward Hogan (P)2009 W.F. Howes Ltd. Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction
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I was almost put off by the summary of this book which makes it sound weird but I took a chance as I knew it would be very well read by Nick Boulton. His readings are a delight and this is well worthy of the full five stars.

The book itself was not weird as I had feared. It gradually and convincingly reveals the events leading up to a woman's death and gives insights into the lives of those around her who live on. It's set against the almost apocalyptic vision of a mining village shattered by the effects of the miners' strike.

The book doesn't get such a high rating as the reading but it's a good satisfying listen.

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