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The Hollow Tree

By: James Brogden
Narrated by: Sarah Nichols
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Summary

From the critically acclaimed author of Hekla’s Children comes a dark and haunting tale of our world and the next.

After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help. When she begins to experience phantom sensations of leaves and earth with her missing limb, Rachel is terrified she is going mad. But then another hand takes hers, and the trapped woman is pulled into our world.

This woman has no idea who she is, but Rachel can’t help but think of the mystery of Oak Mary, a female corpse found in a hollow tree and who was never identified. Three urban legends have grown up around the case; was Mary a Nazi spy, a prostitute, or a gypsy witch? Rachel is desperate to learn the truth, but darker forces are at work - for a rule has been broken, and Mary is in a world where she doesn’t belong.

©2018 James Brogden (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

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brilliant story, poorly chosen narration

the story was great, engaging with a good pace but the narration was such a poor choice. It took away from the book. The main character is a witty young woman who is made to sound like an aristocratic old lady. There are some dodgy accents and some of the word pronunciations were truly shocking! Sigils was pronounced 'siggles' and Peugeot was pronounced 'pea jou' just to point out a few! are these things not listened to by an editor or anything???

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Awful narration!

Story was good BUT narrator was terrible and really shouldn't have even bothered trying to do different accents, her "Scottish" accent was a mixture of West country with Irish hints, her German accent was dire and she got muddled with whose accent was which! Made it very hard to continue listening.

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Brilliant

love it, it was a great story, will be reading more of James Brogdens books

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Began good ,took a dip in the middle finished well

Narrator struggled a bit maintaining different characters voices. Got a bit confusing. Nice accent

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Couldn’t finish

I am so sad to write this because I had high hopes but it’s just so slow and boring. Narrator does a good job but I just couldn’t stay interested and I tried 3 times to come back to it.

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Not nearly as good as The Plague Stones or Hekla’s Children

I don’t know why, but this is much worse than The Plague Stones and Hekla’s Children. Disappointed.