
The Estate
Audible's Crime and Thriller Listen of the Month
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Narrated by:
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Denise Gough
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By:
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Liza Costello
About this listen
There’s no place like home...and Beth hopes there never will be again.
Beth never had a settled home as a child, but that’s all behind her now. She’s fine. Great. Settled in her single life. Until friends start peeling away, moving on to careers and family, leaving her feeling impatient and angry. When she bumps into Jason at a party, she spots the opportunity for her own fresh start - to turn her back on a reckless life of drinking and missed deadlines. She can build a new life, too...can’t she? When she discovers that Jason has the opportunity to house-sit a new build out of town, she glimpses her chance. There’s only one catch - Jason needs to stay in town for the sake of his new job. But Beth can keep their dreams alive on her own, can’t she?
As her drinking worsens, and new friends turn out to be prospective enemies, her sense of reality begins to unravel. As Beth comes to confront the mysteries of her own past, she moves closer to understanding the desperate crime at the heart of the estate. But first she must learn who is behind the strange attacks on her new home. And is Jason who she thought he was? Can she even trust him?
In this taut crime novel set in the aftermath of the Irish recession, a change for the better turns into a nightmare of uncertainty. An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Cass Green.
©2018 Liza Costello (P)2019 Audible, LtdAudible's Crime & Thriller Pick of the Month: February 2020
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About the author
Liza Costello’s stories and poems have been published and broadcast in The Irish Independent, The Stinging Fly and RTÉ Radio 1, among other places. She won the 2011 Dromineer Literary Festival's annual poetry prize and has also been short-listed for the Seán Ó’Faoláin International Short Story Competition, RTE Radio 1’s Francis McManus Award for short stories, and the 2015 Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry.
She is the author of the Kindle Singles Retreat and Spin. The Estate is her first novel. She lives in the Irish midlands.
Editor's review
This is a twisting, sinister story that will keep you listening into the early hours, and will keep you guessing right until the very end. The atmospheric, isolated setting of the ghost estate is hauntingly imagined and Denise Gough brings these troubled characters to life.
A perfect listen for fans of The Girl on the Train.
The main setting, one of Ireland's ghost estates is a good choice and comes to life nicely during the story. But it's that story that never quite hit the right balance for me. There was too much just thrown into it, broken families, drug use, violence against women and so on, all good crime fiction staples but it just got a bit muddled and the idea of the remote retreat and what happened there very much bolt-on rather than integrated.
I was also surprised at the relative flatness of Denise Gough's delivery, she has a lovely voice and accent but there was very little characterisation in there. That said, the last 30 minutes of this audiobook is dedicated to interviews with both the author and the narrator which were both genuinely interesting. Denise explained that as the story was being told from Beth's viewpoint she wanted to relate all through Beth's voice but I'd still prefer more of a performance personally. Liza explained that the whole thing began with the place, the ghost estate, and I definitely got that as she brought it and Beth to life well with the plot being the weaker part.
So, I finished it, I enjoyed it well enough and I'll be tempted to see what this author does next but I'm not convinced it's quite in Listen of the Month territory.
A Strange Mix
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Fabulous!
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Could have gone somewhere
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The title should have better been ‘a woman who invokes indifference gets through a few years’. The drinking problem wasn’t really explored, nor the relationships.
Overall I would recommend this if you’re getting over a really gripping ‘we need to talk about Kevin’ style novel and want some light relief to do the washing up to.
Inoffensive way to spend time but not very exciting
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Narrative a shame!!
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shame about the reader's accent.
annoying voice
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Full of twists yet a very plausible story .
I genuinely can’t recommend the Estate highly enough .
Just brilliant
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Real thriller.
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Very interesting
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Good book, good narration.
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