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The Institute

Five students stepped in front of a train. Only one came back. But what happened on the platform was just the beginning.

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The Institute

By: Katherine Bradley
Narrated by: Heather Long
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Summary

 The Sanctuary meets Shutter Island in this chilling speculative thriller from the acclaimed author of The Sisterhood.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER.
SOME FLY TO THEIR DEATHS.

A group of students step off a platform into the path of an oncoming train.

Only Billie survives.

She remembers nothing.
But she knows they weren’t suicidal.

At the secretive Arbor Institute, Billie is diagnosed with ‘flock phenomena’: a terrifying impulse to self-destruct with the group.

If it happens again, she’ll die.

Cut off from the world, watched at every turn, Billie begins to understand the truth:

The Institute isn’t trying to cure her.

It’s trying to contain her.

But Billie isn’t prey.

She’s the threat.

‘Brilliantly executed, alarming, deeply disturbing and worryingly believable!’ Trevor Wood, author of The Inside Man

‘Thoughtful and compelling… Moving and memorable’ Jo Furniss, author of Dead Mile Dystopian Genetic Engineering Genre Fiction Psychological Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Survival
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Critic reviews

Praise for The Institute:

‘Like all the best speculative fiction, takes a real-world problem and pushes it to an inevitable and terrifying extreme… Brilliantly executed, alarming, deeply disturbing and worryingly believable!’ Trevor Wood, author of The Inside Man

‘Both thoughtful and compelling, this is a thriller that will leave you thinking long after the last page… Moving and memorable’ Jo Furniss, author of Dead Mile

‘A clever and disturbing thriller for fans of Stephen King’ The Oxford Bookworm

Praise for Katherine Bradley, writing as Kate Bradley:

‘Addictive, original and brilliantly twisty’ T. M. Logan

‘Heart-stopping’ David Nicholls
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The audiobook was very cool, the change of voices and accents, the sound effects, the “voice call” effect (albeit the voices got quiet quiet then)

Interesting concept, felt it missed out on the potential

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From the opening scene, The Institute hooks you in to its original storyline. I loved the twists and unexpected direction of the story, and this was a real page turner to the end. Masterfully woven story, I would recommend.

An original pacy thriller

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