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The Undoing of Violet Claybourne

A Novel

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The Undoing of Violet Claybourne

By: Emily Critchley
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
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Three enigmatic sisters. A Boxing Day hunt gone awry. One story, the real story, is finally coming to light.

1999: When successful writer Gillian Larking receives a letter from the nephew of an old friend, she knows that her past has finally caught up with her. Violet Claybourne, her old boarding school roommate, was a girl who captivated Gillian with stories of her charming sisters and their picturesque home at Thornleigh Hall.

Violet Claybourne pulled Gillian into her life, into her family, and changed Gilly's path forever. Violet Claybourne also spent the past sixty years in a psych hospital, and now she wants Gillian to tell her story.

The real story.

1939: Gillian knew upon meeting the Claybourne girls at Thornleigh Hall that they were something more. Rich, enigmatic, bright, unafraid of the world around them, a foreign concept to quiet, unassuming Gilly. Meeting Violet, Emmeline, and Laura was like entering a new world. Gilly longed to be a part of them, and when a terrible Boxing Day hunt goes awry, she gets that wish. But only in a way more terrible than she could ever have imagined. Soon enough Gillian has to confront just how deep her loyalty to the Claybourne girls runs, and what it might cost her, and them, in the process.

©2025 Emily Critchley (P)2025 Recorded Books
Coming of Age Genre Fiction Gothic Horror Mystery Women Sleuths
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This may have been a bit too slow for me. I think the story was interesting but parts drug on in ways that made it hard to stick with.

Good

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This could have been a good story in about half the time. I forced myself to finish it, and even the ending was predictable. Not impressed.

Boring and convoluted

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Beautifully narrated!

This book was just …. Wheeeeeeew!
I didn’t see ANY of it coming. Just when I think I’ve seen the main thing … TWWWWWIST! Absolutely astonishing, and just … whoa-of-a-book.
I read One Puzzling After, and I really enjoyed it. I was captivated. I love her writing style. And everything is so vivid, and easy to see clearly in my mind. And I didn’t see what came in that book coming either. But this one … this one blew my whole imaginative mind.

What A Story …

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