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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits

World's End Bureau, Book 1

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The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits

By: Alys Clare
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
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London, 1880. When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau's owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are sceptical.

How are the two private enquiry agents supposed to investigate threats from beyond the grave? But after she attends a seance at the Stibbins family home, Lily comes to realize that Albertina is in terrible danger. And soon, so is Lily herself....

©2019 Alys Clare (P)2019 Oakhill Publishing Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Private Investigators Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Marriage

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What a cracking story! The late Victorian period is so beautifully evoked and the characters so well painted! The quality of Lucy Scott’s expert narration enhanced the experience to perfection. Absolutely brilliant from start to finish. Can’t wait to start the next one. I’m hooked.

Absolutely stellar in every regard!

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I expected something fun and easy to read.
I got that but also more grit on the lives and deaths of Victorian women than I expected.

Better than expected

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Very easy listening and brilliantly narrated, I love the spark growing between the two main characters and looking forward to more in this series

Very enjoyable

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Very atmospheric and intriguing. Also kind to the listener by not making the story over long.

Absorbing !

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What a joy it is to find a new author you love. Alys Clare's storytelling is first class,. drawing the reader into her mysterious Victorian London and its marvellous characters. I can't wait to read her next book

Brilliant

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This is a book but not a novel. The word novel implies something new or original and this story is far from that. In fact, the plot and characterisation in general is rather demode. It's not only that Lily is often reliant on the men around her, I assume the Victorian setting is a nod at making these stereotypes acceptable, but it is incongruous with the rest of her characterisation: we are supposed to believe Lily is able to defy convention so far as to set up her own private detective agency and hire a man as a subordinate and yet ,soon after, she often defers to him - it's confusing.

There are also clanging notes aplenty when the writer's choice of historical setting doesn't seem to have affected the modern morality that she peddles out. Writers can't select a historical period and then shoe-horn in modern scruples - it doesn't work. Why do so many writers patronise us in this way? We DO notice these incongruities.

It may just be me but I'm bored with being presented with these old gender tropes, even if it is in a crinoline. I don't want to see fainting females coddled or bullied or even validated by the men around them - give me something novel. Please.

Yesterday's prose.

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The narrator spoke way too quickly
Boring storyline, didn’t seem to go anywhere
Difficult to get into
Not keen

Not over keen

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