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Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie
Narrated by: Fran Burgoyne
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Heather, Rachel and Antonia are going to Almanby.

Heather needs to find her boyfriend who, like so many, went and never came back.

Rachel has a mysterious package to deliver, and her life depends on it.

And Antonia — poor, lovestruck Antonia just wants the chance to spend the day with Heather.

So off they set through the idyllic yet perilous English countryside, in which nature thrives in abundance and summer lasts forever, and as they travel through ever-shifting geography and encounter strange voices in the fizz of shortwave radio, the harder it becomes to tell friend from foe.

Creepy, dreamlike, unsettling and unforgettable — you are about to join the privileged few who come to understand exactly why we don't go to Almanby.

©2024 Adam S. Leslie (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd Horror Psychological Thriller & Suspense
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The dreamy quality and the excellent narration
Great story - cheerfully plotting along
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Wonderful dreamlike story

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Interesting in that it’s set in a world that’s 95% like our own. Most things are familiar to the reader but some things are off. It’s hard to quantify as nothing is explained much.
I have to say, up front, this just isn’t my kinda story. Nothing amounts to much and it’s very anticlimactic. The 3 main characters range from slightly annoying to unbearably annoying. The main protagonist is just childish and got on my nerves almost immediately and I was stuck with her for another 7 plus hours.
Lists are way too long, annoying songs are sung too often and for too long, conversations were often totally inane. It often felt like dialogue for the sake of dialogue but between two people who were either pathetically childish or didn’t want to talk. It was often just drivel.
The story didn’t really go anywhere and the side characters were unlikeable and often without purpose or point.
The narrator’s voice has obviously been slowed down for some reason. It just makes the whole thing tedious. I listened at x1.7 and it still felt like it dragged.
Interestingly written but not clever enough to be at all enjoyable.

In a parallel universe

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the whole story was almost dream like. The narrator was brilliant. It was.like I was travelling with the characters feeling the heat,dust and emptiness of the landscape.

lost in the Garden

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Like being caught in a nightmare, in a good way. Ghosts, anomalies, numbers stations, folk horror… all in beautiful prose with an excellent narrator.

Haunting, weird and poetic

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One of my favorite books. Has really stuck with me. Narration fantastic. A cliche to describe this novel as a fever dream, but that does sort of fit the bill. It's woozy, creepy, sad and so, so evocative of long, long Summers.

Haunting, hazy horror.

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