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The Wych Elm

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The Wych Elm

Written by: Tana French
Narrated by: Paul Nugent
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Wych Elm by Tara Elm, read by Paul Nugent.

For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves everything on the other luminous and untouchable.

One night changes everything for Toby. A brutal attack leaves him traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his uncle's rambling home, the Ivy House, filled with cherished memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.

But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made. A skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.

As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.

A spellbinding standalone from a literary writer who turns the crime genre inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.

 Classics Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Gothic Horror Literary Fiction Noir Women's Fiction

Critic Reviews

A truly great writer (Gillian Flynn)
The Wych Elm is her best novel yet (Erin Kelly)
Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable
My favourite novel of last year (Sophie Hannah)
Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent (Stephen King)
A masterpiece (John Boyne)
The finest crime writer around right now
One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History...impossible to put down
The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists
Her storytelling skills are incredible (Sarra Manning)
All stars
Most relevant
It was a good book, narrated really well. However, it could have been shorter. The plot had some twists, but the protagonists inner monologue was long and meandering and at times I simply moved ahead without really losing the plot.

Engaging narrator with a great story.

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The narration is nauseatingly melodramatic that makes all characters sound like pesky, ill-tempered, whiny, irritating teenagers. It’s a tragedy, because the writing isn’t bad.

Decent story ruined by narration

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