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Hide and Seek

By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
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Appearing in 1854, Hide and Seek was Wilkie Collins’s third published novel. At the centre of the plot is the mystery surrounding a deaf and dumb girl known as Madonna, whom the painter Valentine Blyth rescues from her life as a circus performer. But it is only when Blyth’s friend Zack Thorpe rebels against his disciplinarian father and falls into bad company that the secret of Madonna is revealed.

Combining charm and excitement, Hide and Seek is presented in two halves: the first is leisurely and discursive while the second picks up the pace, foreshadowing Collins’s later sensational fiction.

Hide and Seek is persuasively delivered by Nicholas Boulton, who has read several of Collins’s novels, including No Name, Armadale, The Dead Secret, and Man and Wife.

Public Domain (P)2022 Naxos AudioBooks UK Ltd. Classics Historical Fiction Fiction
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It looks like Naxos is recording the complete novels of Wilkie Collins. I certainly hope so if the reader is Nicholas Boulton whose characterisations are a pure delight!

More Collins please

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loved it, a little slow in starting an altogether captivating storyline, great ending, beautiful narrated

fantastic

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This is the third Wilkie Collins novel I have listened to and I have enjoyed them all.

As with the other two, there is a slowish build-up and laying out of the background leading on to an interesting storyline with some twists and turns along the way.

The narrator is one of the best I have heard on Audible and I have been a member for several years. His range of voices and accents is superb. If I could, I would give the narration an extra star.

Good Story Excellently Narated

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As always Wilkie Collins delivers masterful storytelling even if to our ears it can sound melodramatic and contrived. One cannot but enjoy the wonderful language, character development and storytelling of this great author. Nicholas Boulton is of course unsurpassed in his reading….

Marvellous narrative

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A very good story with excellent characterisation.
It was serious but not depressing.
The narration absolutely superb.

Excellent

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