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The Source

By: Sarah Sultoon
Narrated by: Mofetoluwa Akande
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One last chance to reveal the truth....

1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak....

2006. London. Junior TV newsroom journalist Marie has spent six months exposing a gang of sex traffickers, but everything is derailed when New Scotland Yard announces the re-opening of Operation Andromeda, the notorious investigation into allegations of sex abuse at an army base a decade earlier....

As the lives of these two characters intertwine around a single defining event, a series of utterly chilling experiences is revealed, sparking a nail-biting race to find the truth...and justice.

A riveting, searing and devastatingly dark thriller, The Source is also a story about survival, about hopes and dreams, about power, abuse and resilience...an immense, tense and thought-provoking debut that you will never, ever forget.

©2021 Sarah Sultoon (P)2021 Audible, Ltd. Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Political Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Exciting Scary
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Nothing to say except you must download this book.
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I thought this was a very interesting idea and certainly a new one for me. Whilst I think it's got plenty of potential I felt that there were too many moments when our hero was unable to speak and therefore resolve a bad situation. Whilst I don't quibble with the fact that this can happen in real life, it makes an audio book quite laborious. Still most accomplished for a debut novel so I'll keep my eye out for the next release from Ms Sultoon

An interesting concept

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fictional, historic child sexual abuse scandal and the long shadow cast by such cases.

A well written, well narrated book about a

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I found this story thrilling yet heartbreaking throughout. Impactfully written and purposely shocking, it captured the horror of abuse rings and the humanity of their victims

moving, realistic, shocking and beautiful

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I didn’t enjoy this book. Not because the shocking topic of organised child abuse is the main theme of the novel, but because it didn’t draw me in as some books can, partly because the story jumps back and forward in time among different groups of characters many of which are poorly delineated so I had trouble keeping track of who was whom. It isn’t helped by the two sisters at the centre of the scandal having similar sounding names. I found the final chapters over-written with hyperbolic prose that detracted from the impact of the denouement.
The narrator is very good

Not so suitable for an audio book

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