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The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel Audiobook
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Best Books of 2021 · NPR
ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence.
"Narrator Mandy Weston's cool narration is the perfect match to this tale, making the twists and turns in the plot especially surprising ...This tale mixes gothic horror, ghosts, and a love story to create a potent listen." - AudioFile Magazine
"A jewel box of a Gothic novel." —New York Times Book Review
“Delicious.... By the time the book reached that point of no return, I was so invested that I would have followed Jane into the very depths of hell.” —NPR.org
“Intense and amazing! It’s like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak.” —BookRiot
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town.
Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man—one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to.
Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Caitlin Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished.
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“Intense and amazing! It’s like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak.”
— BookRiot
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“A delicious Gothic romance.”
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“Starling blends classic gothic romance with magic and philosophy for a truly spooky tale.”
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“Starling magnificently twists gothic tropes to her own ends, creating a uniquely white-knuckle fantasy experience.”
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“The horror in this gothic set in an alternate postwar England subtly increases as the novel progresses, unease seeping into the pages.”
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“An uncanny, beguiling and captivating page-turner. So much atmosphere you will be lost in the night’s fog and rub your eyes and hope it’s not real.”
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“Tense and unsettling, treading the finest line between brilliance and madness. I absolutely adored it.”
— Emily Duncan, author of the Something Dark and Holy trilogy
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An October 2021 LibraryReads Pick
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A BookPage Top Pick of the Month
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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An Oregonian Top 10 Book of Mysteries & Thrillers by Oregon Authors
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
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About Caitlin Starling
Caitlin Starling writes horror-tinged speculative fiction. Her first novel, The Luminous Dead, won the LOHF Best Debut Award and was nominated for both the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards. She is also the author of the gothic horror tales Yellow Jessamine and The Death of Jane Lawrence, as well as a novella in the Vampire: The Masquerade audio collection, Walk Among Us. Her nonfiction has appeared in Nightmare and Uncanny. She is always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.
About Mandy Weston
Mandy Weston trained at the Guildford School of Acting. In 1995 she cofounded the Ansuz Theatre Company in London, producing and performing in several productions, including the critically received My Sister in this House. She has also adapted and produced Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin for theatre, playing the title role. She played Alice in Patrick Marber’s award-winning play, Closer, at the RNT and London’s West End. As well as appearing in television and film, she has voiced many projects including The Queen Mother in Her Reign in Colour for ITV, and recently a recording of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.