Lady Audley's Secret Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Now makes up one on the list of the few Victorian novels (<5) I have not enjoyed reading. "

" This was a great book that had me eagerly reading on the edge of my seat. Since it's not a modern book, I was not sure which way the plot was going to go, and I was really eager to find out what the author was going to torture the characters with next. A really well done suspense with a gently humourous authorial voice. "

" struggling with this one... "

" I remembered this much more fondly from my undergraduate days and though I'd read it because of the connection to the case referred to in The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, but it was not so great. Serialized, it often got away from Braddon with lots of inconsistancies. Lady Audley was born poor and abandoned by her husband when he realizes he can't provide for her or their son. She deserts son the her drunken father and re-invents herself as a governess. She meets rich Mr. Audley and marries. Her husband re-surfaces, rich from Australia to reveal her. She pushes him in a well and then sets fire to a building, hoping to kill the man searching for her husband (the narrator). She's caught in the end. "

" A Victorian pot-boiler, which resembles Wilkie Collins' work, and was contemporaneous with it. Very melodramatic and overwrought, but enjoyable nonetheless. Rather misogynistic in parts, which is interesting, since it was written by a woman. The emotional relationships seem rather facile, except for that between Robert Audley and Talboys "

" If you like Victorian sensation literature you'll like this book. Bigamy, false identity, mad houses, murder, arson...it has it all. Plus all the good people end up living idyllically in a cottage in the end. "

" I thought this was an excellent suspense novel. I could guess some of what happened, but other twists were very surprising and I had trouble putting the book down at certain points. Definitely a good book for anyone who enjoys suspense/mystery novels. "

" I really enjoyed this. The writing style is not for everyone of course - very wordy, with lots of description, and digressions to meditate on characters' moral fiber. The plot is incredibly modern though - the basic outlines of it could be transferred to a modern mystery novel with no trouble. "

" This book was great! If you liked Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier you would probably like this too! "

" Nicely gothic... all the way back to 19th century Britain "

" Wow! That was a wild ride! "

" Loved every bit of it until the ending. :( "

" Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2000) "

" For lovers of truly Victorian novels only. Lady Audley was too soon for her time. "

" More of a difficult read, but very unexpected ending! "

" Good! The big things are not as predictable as I thought! "

" Great Gothic stuff. "

" The twists and turns had really got me going. The fragile and lovely persona of Lady Audley has made the story even more interesting! "

" Another reading for uni. Surprisingly modern, witty and lively. "

" I found myself wishing Dickens wrote this. It could have been so much more. That said, I did enjoy it for what it was. The passages detailing Lady Audley's infinite beauty were difficult to stomach many times. "

" I enjoyed this 19th century "sensational novel", although it didn't measure up to Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone and The Woman in White). "