The Way to Sattin Shore
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Narrated by:
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Helena Bonham Carter
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By:
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Philippa Pearce
About this listen
Kate Tranter is fatherless - or is she? The evidence of the tombstone she finds in the churchyard seems conclusive. And yet... The tombstone disappears and Kate is left with a mystery about which her family either knows nothing or will tell nothing. Her search for the truth leads her to Sattin Shore: and the way to Sattin Shore turns out to be a way into the past.
Her two elder brothers, her grandmother, her new friend Anna and her missing father all have a part to play in Kate’s search to fit the jigsaw pieces of past and present to find a new picture for the future.
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- Lucy Florence Farr
- 21-06-19
stunning book
this was my favourite book as a child and I enjoyed it just as much as a 38 year old. Helena brought it to life perfectly and I still cried at the end. thank you audible xxxx
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- Zoe
- 22-02-21
perfect!
read non stop in one night, with bonus of well observed characters and a cat.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-11-21
a childhood fav
I love this book. I red it many years ago when I was a kid. and was so happy to find it on here.
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- John
- 28-06-15
A suspenseful story set in an everyday world
This is a children's story, but one with dark themes : a family who don't communicate with one another, parents who lack the courage to tell the truth. The action takes place amid everyday activities in a very ordinary sort of town: mending a slow puncture, opening the trap door to the attic, picking strawberries and making jam. But each of these everday scenes, covincingly described, fit together and shed light on the basic mystery of the story: what happened to Kate Tranter's father.
The story begins with Kate coming home from school and letting herself into her familiy's cheerless house and going past the door of her Granny's room. From the door, standing slightly ajar, comes not a beam of light, but a beam of darkness. And that beam of darkness plays a key role later in the story. The deliciously tempting-sounding Sattin Shore turns out to be a lonely place on a estuary with dangerous tides, but there lie the secrets which Kate's family are trying to hide.
Helena Bonham-Carter's narration is superb. She manages to bring out all moods and shades of the family's halting dialogue and keeps us on edge waiting for the next twist of the plot.
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- SEGGY
- 12-01-23
Where reading began!
This was the book that got me into reading. We started having 15 mins quiet reading in the morning at junior school when I was about 8 years old. I got this out of our school library, and all I wanted to do was read this book! This was the first 'proper' book that I ever read, I think. I couldn't remember anything about it (except the cover and how much I loved it), so reading it again was a pleasure.
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- Alan Saunders
- 31-05-24
Not for us
Listened with children, I was fond of the author as a child (although unfamiliar with this book) but found this dull and unbelievable in terms of characters’ actions. Flabby writing too. HBC did a valiant job trying to inject drama into it, but unfortunately it was a miss for us.
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- Herbmum
- 17-11-18
Anticlimax
Not much of a story arc. Mysterious for it's own sake. A bit baffling.
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