Frank Tallis. (2014). The Voices. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Frank Tallis. 2014. The Voices. Blackstone Publishing.

Frank Tallis, The Voices. Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

Frank Tallis. The Voices. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2014.

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     Frank Tallis is a writer and practicing clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing posts in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College London and is one of Britain's leading experts on obsessional states. In 1999 he received a Writers' Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain, and in 2000 he won the New London Writers Award.

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From Edgar nominee F. R. Tallis comes a new novel of psychological suspense that reinvents the classic haunted-house tale.In the scorching summer of 1976—the hottest since records began—Christopher Norton, his wife Laura, and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London. The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking sound. Then come the voices.For Norton, the voices mark an exciting opportunity. Putting his work to one side, he begins the project of a lifetime—a grand symphony incorporating the voices—and becomes increasingly obsessed with one voice in particular ... someone who is determined to make themselves heard.

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   • content: "If you're looking for the best in popular fiction, Tallis is well worth seeking out."
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   • content: Narrator Gildart Jackson knows his way around an old-fashioned ghost story, and this audiobook is all the better for it. The creepy story of a haunted house, a young family, and an ambitious composer sets the groundwork; Jackson adds even more eerie atmosphere. His subtly disturbing vocalizations for the story's ethereal beings produce physical chills as well as psychological suspense. He also does a commendable job of portraying the conflicted wife's desperate efforts to keep her infant daughter safe while maintaining her own sanity. With just enough dramatic restraint, Jackson keeps the paranormal frightening AND believable. J.F. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
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     March 23, 2015
     Set in the English summer of 1976, Tallis’s haunted-house thriller combines a demonic presence, sexual politics, and the dissolution of a marriage. Shortly after Christopher Norton, a composer of exploitation movie soundtracks, and his wife, Laura, a retired top model, move into a long-vacant Victorian home in North London, odd voices begin appearing on their daughter Faye’s baby monitor. Laura is frightened, but Christopher is so fascinated by the otherworldly chatter that he decides to incorporate the sounds into a masterwork composition. Eventually, the dominant male voice proclaims, “The child is mine,” and, shortly thereafter, baby Faye disappears. What follows is grim and ultimately horrific. Jackson narrates the novel in a melodramatic British accent. Following Tallis’s story line, he presents Christopher and Laura as a reasonably happy couple with a few rough edges—he’s concerned his creative and financial success is behind him, while she’s troubled by unsavory memories from her modeling career. As Tallis applies the suspense screws, both husband and wife feel the tension and Jackson delivers their terse conversations in a properly strident manner. He’s also on target with the chilling voices, as well as the secondary characters—Christopher’s childhood frenemy, Simon Ogilvy, a smug, self-satisfied composer of classical music, and his wife, Amanda, with whom Christopher has an affair. Baker also brings the other characters to life, including Christopher’s bumptious agent (who’s convinced the film Star Wars will be a disaster), an annoyingly patronizing pediatrician, and an odd landscape designer, but his major accomplishment is his performance of Laura’s leap into anger and madness when discovering her daughter’s disappearance. It’s guaranteed to rise the hair on the back of your neck. A Pegasus Crime hardcover.

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