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The Loney

By: Andrew Michael Hurley
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
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'The Loney is not just good, it's great. It's an amazing piece of fiction' Stephen King

Easter 1976. Two teenage brothers, one mute, the other his lifelong protector, set off on a retreat with their parents and others from their church to a Catholic shrine on a wild, ever-changing stretch of Lancashire coastline known as the Loney. Led by new incumbent Father Bernard, the pilgrims dutifully observe the traditions leading up to the Resurrection, but the boys learn that there is a much older, darker power to be found in the landscape itself, one which is being tapped by strange rituals on the tidal island of Coldbarrow.

Many years later, a child's body is discovered, and the two brothers are forced to confront the horrors of the past. The Loney always gives up its secrets, in the end.

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016

'This is a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill' Observer

'A masterful excursion into terror' The Sunday Times

©2015 Andrew Michael Hurley (P)2015 John Murray Press Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Scary Fiction

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'Modern classics in this genre are rare, and instant ones even rarer; The Loney, however, looks as though it may be both' Sunday Telegraph
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I really enjoyed this, more than almost all of the hundreds of audiobooks I own. This was a very atmospheric novel, very bleak and dark. The performance was exceptional and the characters were well drawn and believable. I stopped watching TV because I wanted to listen to this and before I had finished this one, I bought the author’s other books.

Highly atmospheric with great narration

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