Distant Voices: Get lost in a collection of captivating short stories brimming with mystery and suspense - Softcover

Erskine, Barbara

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9780008180911: Distant Voices: Get lost in a collection of captivating short stories brimming with mystery and suspense

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ISBN 10: 0008180911 ISBN 13: 9780008180911

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2017

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In her second volume of short stories, which follows the hugely successful 'Encounters', Barbara Erskine has created a compelling world of love, betrayal, suspense and grief.

A biographer investigating a tragic death hears voices from the past drawing her towards the truth...

A nineteenth century parson’s daughter is caught up in the excitement and romance of a smuggling intrigue...

A young boy from a deprived background finds his own haven in the wastelands of the inner city...

Contemporary, historical, spooky, and humorous – there are over thirty delightful stories, each one guaranteed to capture the reader’s imagination, and all demonstrating Barbara Erskine’s unique powers as a storyteller.

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Review:

Praise for Barbara Erskine:

‘Her forte is mood, atmosphere and the toe-curling frisson’, Sunday Times

‘Barbara Erskine’s storytelling talent is undeniable’ The Times

‘Marvellous, escapist stuff’ Woman and Home

From the Back Cover:

In her second volume of short stories, which follows the hugely successful 'Encounters', Barbara Erskine has created a wide and vivid range of worlds and emotions, from love, romance, loneliness, grief, to betrayal, passion, adventure, and compelling suspense.

A biographer investigating a tragic death hears voices from the past drawing her towards the truth...A nineteenth century parson’s daughter is caught up in the excitement and romance of a smuggling intrigue...A young boy from a deprived background finds his own haven in the wastelands of the inner city... A young woman, struggling to choose between love or her career, finds help from an unexpected source...

Contemporary, historical, spooky, humorous, there are over thirty delightful stories, each one guaranteed to capture the reader’s imagination, and all demonstrating Barbara Erskine’s unique powers as a storyteller.

“Readers of Barbara Erskine are held in thrall”
WOMAN’S REALM

“Vivid, romantic, and deliciously scary”
LIVING

“Barbara Erskine’s storytelling talent is undeniable”
THE TIMES

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