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    The Visitors
    The Visitors
    The Visitors
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Visitors

    Written by Catherine Burns

    Narrated by Kate Reading

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    With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.

    What becomes of a child who grows up without love?

    Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John’s rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door...and to the women’s laundry in the hamper that isn’t hers. For years, she’s buried the signs of John’s devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind—until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to bear his secret.

    Forced to go down to the cellar and face what her brother has kept hidden, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to understand: maybe John isn’t the only one with a dark side....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 26, 2017
    ISBN9781508243946
    Author

    Catherine Burns

    Born in Manchester, Catherine Burns is a graduate of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. She worked as a bond trader in London before studying at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and teaching film theory at the University of Salford. The Visitors is her debut novel.

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    • 3/5
      The book is good but I found myself not knowing who to hate more. It was hard to have sympathy for any character even though it’s clear that the author wanted you to feel bad. I liked the book overall but it was hard not to have moments where I was disgusted with the behavior and acts that they committed. The relationships were strange and unnatural.

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    • 5/5
      So this was intensely twisted!!! If you’re into that kind of thing you will definitely like The Visitors.

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    • 4/5
      Only qualms are that a large chunk of the novel is dedicated to memories of Marion and John’s childhood or Marion’s inner anxiety-fueled ramblings, and thus there was quite a bit less ‘action’ than I expected. Fantastic writing- Marion is deeply relatable character for the perpetually lonely or melancholic, but will also surprise you right along with herself. Slow burn and a bit long winded but the climax is twisted and worth the investment!
    • 5/5
      Thoroughly enjoyed the slow sizzle of this story. Nothing incredibly dramatic going on, but I wanted to know what would happen next.
    • 4/5
      It's a good writer who can make you both dislike and pity the protagonist at the same time
    • 5/5
      I liked this novel a lot. However, it left me feeling a bit icky. I thought Marion deserved to be punished. She didn’t deserve a happy ending. While she began as somewhat of a sympathetic character by the end you understood her pure evilness.
    • 2/5
      Good writing, but dreadfully slow. And it never picks up the pace.
    • 2/5
      I would not recommend this book to anyone. Main character is so irritating that I wanted to throttle her from time to time. Perhaps better if heavily edited in to a short story.
    • 1/5
      Boring!!!! Ungodly boring as sin! I listen to a book a day while I work - I wanted to run away from home if I had to listen to one more chapter!