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Palace of the Drowned: A Novel Audiobook, by Christine Mangan Play Audiobook Sample

Palace of the Drowned: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Emily Pennant-Rea Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250804389

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

33

Longest Chapter Length:

47:17 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

33 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

18:33 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

"Emily Pennant-Rea delivers a first-rate narration of Mangan's intense novel...Pennant-Rea's subtlety and nuance keep the suspense high and the mystery edgy." -- AudioFile Magazine From the bestselling author of Tangerine, a "taut and mesmerizing follow up...voluptuously atmospheric and surefooted at every turn” (Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark). It’s 1966 and Frankie Croy retreats to her friend’s vacant palazzo in Venice. Years have passed since the initial success of Frankie’s debut novel and she has spent her career trying to live up to the expectations. Now, after a particularly scathing review of her most recent work, alongside a very public breakdown, she needs to recharge and get re-inspired. Then Gilly appears. A precocious young admirer eager to make friends, Gilly seems determined to insinuate herself into Frankie’s solitary life. But there’s something about the young woman that gives Frankie pause. How much of what Gilly tells her is the truth? As a series of lies and revelations emerge, the lives of these two women will be tragically altered as the catastrophic 1966 flooding of Venice ravages the city. Suspenseful and transporting, Christine Mangan's Palace of the Drowned brings the mystery of Venice to life while delivering a twisted tale of ambition and human nature. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books "In her taut and mesmerizing follow up to Tangerine, the preternaturally gifted Christine Mangan plunges us into another exotic and bewitchingly rendered locale...Voluptuously atmospheric and surefooted at every turn, Palace of the Drowned more than delivers on the promise of Mangan’s debut, and firmly establishes her as a writer of consequence." -- Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark "If you like your psychological suspense stories awash in atmosphere, drenched in dread, positively soaked through with sinisterness, 'Palace of the Drowned,' by Christine Mangan is for you." -- Washington Post

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“Spins on low-boil psychological underpinnings, with a threat of violence; Palace of the Drowned shrewdly echoes Patricia Highsmith, Gaslight, and All About Eve.”

— Shelf Awareness

Quotes

  • “Emily Pennant–Rea delivers a first-rate narration of Mangan’s intense novel…Pennant–Rea’s subtlety and nuance keep the suspense high and the mystery edgy.”

    — AudioFile
  • “A lush, malice-infused mystery.”

    — New York Times
  • “A page-turning thriller with a setting just as well imagined as the characters who inhabit it.”

    — Veranda magazine
  • “Plunges us into another exotic and bewitchingly rendered locale, this time Venice off-season, moody and damp…Voluptuously atmospheric.”

    — Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author

Awards

  • An Indie Next List Pick of the Month
  • An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
  • A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
  • A Crime Reads Pick of Most Anticipated Crime Books of Summer
  • A Veranda Magazine Pick of Book Club Books for June

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About Christine Mangan

Christine Mangan is the author of the national bestseller, Tangerine. She has her PhD in English from University College Dublin, with a focus on eighteenth-century Gothic literature, and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Southern Maine.