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Stone Mattress

By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, Arthur Morey, Emily Rankin, Bernadette Dunne
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 Bloomsbury presents Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood, read by Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, Arthur Morey, Emily Rankin and Bernadette Dunne.

A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatalite.

In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle – and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.©2014 O. W. Toad, Ltd (P)2014 Random House LLC Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories Fantasy Witty

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I don’t know what I was expecting when I downloaded this, I’ve enjoyed some of Margaret Atwoods other works but this is a beautifully put together set of stories.

The first and last tales won’t be leaving my mind any time soon.

Absolutely floored

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Stories that are so unimaginable, yet realistic. Margaret Atwood is an amazing author and exquisite narrator. I enjoyed this book from start to finish, and the voices of each character were suitable for them. I just couldn’t stop listening. Top marks.

Utopian realism at its finest

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