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    Audiobook13 hours

    Vixen

    Written by Rosie Garland

    Narrated by James Lailey and Alex Tregear

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    Rosie Garland’s extraordinary tale is a story of superstition and devotion in the time of the Black Death and will bewitch both new readers and fans of her much-loved debut, The Palace of Curiosities.

    Devon, 1349. In Brauntone, where seagulls screech across the fields and the wind has a mind to change, Father Thomas arrives as the new priest. Determined to impress his congregation, he quells fears of the coming pestilence with promises of protection.

    For Anne, the priest’s arrival is an opportunity that at sixteen, she feels all too ready for. Convinced a grand fate awaits, she moves in as Thomas’s housekeeper, though hopeful of something more. But his home is a place without love or kindness. So when a strange, mute Maid is discovered, washed up in the marshes, and taken in, Anne is grateful for the company. Their friendship is to give Anne the chance of a happiness she thought she’d never know.

    But soon the plague strikes Brauntone, spreading panic. And as the villagers’ fear turns to anger, Thomas must sacrifice everything to restore their faith in him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 17, 2014
    ISBN9780007559169
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    Vixen
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    Rosie Garland

    Rosie Garland has published five solo collections of poetry and her award-winning short stories, poems and essays have been widely anthologized. She is is the author of Vixen and her debut novel, The Palace of Curiosities won Book of the Year in the Co-op Respect Awards 2013 and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her next novel is The Night Brother and will be published in 2017.

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      I am so used to cruelty that I do not know what it is to taste sweetness; so used to running that I do not know what it means to stand still. It is not a skill I have ever had to learn. I can lie, cheat, cozen, simper and act a hundred parts, and not one of them is real. My heart has grown as crooked as this disguise I wear. Page 181Anne has dreamt of a different life and escape came in the form of a marriage to the village priest. Nothing is as it seems and death is creeping around the corner. Pestilence, the plague, the Great Mortality is sweeping across the country and fear is rampant, cloaked in superstition and religious fervour. Out of the blue, a mysterious maid is washed up during a stormy night and Anne's dreams may come true, but not in the way she could have prepared for. The more I read, the more agitated I became. The further along the story carried me the more I wished I could just abandon it. The book is strange in so many ways including the characters, their thoughts and actions. The only moments that were memorable were so for the wrong reasons, crassness and vulgarity. The book is centred around the plague and ironically I wished I had avoided the book like it was the plague. Moving along and not wasting another moment on this book. Not recommended.