The Turnglass: The Sunday Times Bestseller - Turn The Book, Uncover The Mystery
- Author: Gareth Rubin
- Narrator: George Greenland
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Duration: 13:24:58
Synopsis
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Not just a book, but an experience - one in which twists and turns are both on the page and in the very act of reading itself. Two haunting narratives conspire to create a dark, menacing tale that spans half a century of secrets as they echo back and forth - all while the sand slowly drains away . . . This is a story about stories and their perspectives, the passage of time and the slow march of the inevitable. Vivid, resonant, melancholy and beautiful' Janice Hallett
‘A stunning, ingenious, truly immersive mystery. The Turnglass is a thrilling delight' Chris Whitaker
Stuart Turton meets The Magpie Murders in this immersive and unique story for fans of clever crime fiction.
1880s England. On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon Lee, is called from London to treat his cousin, Parson Oliver Hawes, who is dying. Parson Hawes, who lives in the only house on the island – Turnglass House – believes he is being poisoned. And he points the finger at his sister-in-law, Florence. Florence was declared insane after killing Oliver’s brother in a jealous rage and is now kept in a glass-walled apartment in Oliver’s library. And the secret to how she came to be there is found in Oliver’s tête-bêche journal, where one side tells a very different story from the other.
1930s California. Celebrated author Oliver Tooke, the son of the state governor, is found dead in his writing hut off the coast of the family residence, Turnglass House. His friend Ken Kourian doesn’t believe that Oliver would take his own life. His investigations lead him to the mysterious kidnapping of Oliver’s brother when they were children, and the subsequent secret incarceration of his mother, Florence, in an asylum. But to discover the truth, Ken must decipher clues hidden in Oliver’s final book, a tête-bêche novel – which is about a young doctor called Simeon Lee . . .
'An intricate and thoroughly mesmerising tale of family plots and schemes across several generations' Guardian
‘If immersive fiction is for you, you’ll adore this tête-bêche novel . . . Expect two very different stories that magically come together' Belfast Telegraph
Chapters
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chapter 01
Duration: 24min -
chapter 02
Duration: 30min -
chapter 03
Duration: 19min -
chapter 04
Duration: 13min -
chapter 05
Duration: 11min -
chapter 06
Duration: 18min -
chapter 07
Duration: 32min -
chapter 08
Duration: 40min -
chapter 09
Duration: 10min -
chapter 10
Duration: 12min -
chapter 11
Duration: 11min -
chapter 12
Duration: 17min -
chapter 13
Duration: 17min -
chapter 14
Duration: 21min -
chapter 15
Duration: 23min -
chapter 16
Duration: 32min -
chapter 17
Duration: 24min -
chapter 18
Duration: 12min -
chapter 19
Duration: 08min -
chapter 20
Duration: 14min