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    Audiobook11 hours

    The Telling

    Written by Jo Baker

    Narrated by Jilly Bond

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected: along with the memories of her mother, there is something else, a presence - not quite tangible - trying to make itself felt. As Rachel struggles to put her mother's affairs in order, she grows ever more convinced that the house holds a message for her. Can the ghosts of the past be nudging their way into the present, or is Rachel really beginning to lose her mind?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781681411453
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    • 3/5
      The Telling by Jo Baker is a recommended, atmospheric ghost story that alternates between two time periods, contemporary and Gothic.

      Rachel's mother has died and she has went to pack up and clean out the house called Reading Room Cottage that her parents had purchased for a vacation home for their retirement. She had planned to get the chore done quickly, especially since she left her husband Mark, and a new baby at home, but soon realizes that it is going to take longer. Two centuries before this, housemaid Lizzy had lived in the same house. Lizzy found the books of their new lodger, Mr. Moore, irresistible. Today, Rachel is inexplicably drawn to the bookcase and certain books and titles that Lizzy previously read.

      Baker brings the lives of both woman into sharp focus in alternating chapters, although the period details and class inequalities of Lizzy's time will appeal much more to those who enjoy historical fiction. While this is a ghost story, this is not a creepy novel. It consists more of two parallel stories that are set in the same cottage. The actual haunting doesn't really feel convincing to me.
      Nothing firmly connected the two women beyond the cottage itself.

      The writing is quite good and the historical descriptions interesting, but, even though I enjoyed the book, it ended up being a satisfactory read but nothing special for me. Lizzy's story was more compelling than Rachel's for me.

      Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Vintage for review purposes.
    • 4/5
      When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected: along with the memories of her mother, there is something else, a presence - not quite tangible - trying to make itself felt. As Rachel struggles to put her mother's affairs in order, she grows ever more convinced that the house holds a message for her. Can the ghosts of the past be nudging their way into the present, or is Rachel really beginning to lose her mind?My Thoughts:This is another story that is told past and present, which I have to admit I really have a liking for.This story however I felt let down with. What the story needed for me was tha past and present to be brought together. It didn’t need much, maybe Rachel had to find Elizabeth’s diary and their connection was the house, or they shared a bloodline. Without a connection then past and present dosen’t seem to work. Overall I enjoyed the story. I could see where the past was going with Elizabeth but felt nothing much happened with Rachel. I didn’t think it was very creepy as their was a ghostly presence. But… I enjoyed the book and felt it was a nice easy read and would look out for more books by Jo Baker.
    • 3/5
      Yet another tale of two timelines; it’s an excessively popular plot device these days. Sometimes it works pretty well. Others – here, for example – not so much.The two strands concern Rachel, a modern housewife, suffering from depression following her mother’s death but settling in to pack up her parents’ almost-unused country retreat for sale; and Lizzie, a maidservant from the mid-19th century, whose life is disrupted when her father takes in a lodger who proves to be that most dangerous thing, a Chartist. Full points to the author for getting Chartism into a romantic novel, but she doesn’t manage to make it very interesting, and the modern-day story is even less so. Nor is there anything very substantial to tie the two strands together. True confession: I read about half this book a couple of years ago, then put it down and didn’t pick it up again until the other day, when I decided to finish the thing just out of sheer bloody-mindedness. Another one for Oxfam, I fear.