The Book of Sand, Theo Clare
The Book of Sand, Theo Clare
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The Book of Sand

Author: Theo Clare

Narrator: Kristin Atherton

Unabridged: 19 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/19/2022

Synopsis

The first in an epic series created by one of our finest and most inventive storytellers, also known as the international bestseller Mo HayderSand. A hostile world of burning sun.Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon. Now empty of inhabitants, their buildings lie in ruins.In the distance a group of people—a family—walks toward us.Ahead lies shelter: a “shuck” the family calls home and which they know they must reach before the light fails, as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death.To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they must find an object hidden in or near water. But other families want it too. And they are willing to fight to the death to make it theirs.It is beginning to rain in Fairfax County, Virginia, when McKenzie Strathie wakes up. An ordinary teenage girl living an ordinary life—except that the previous night she found a sand-lizard in her bed, and now she’s beginning to question everything around her, especially who she really is ...Two very different worlds featuring a group of extraordinary characters driven to the very limit of their endurance in a place where only the strongest will survive.

About Theo Clare

Mo Hayder left school at fifteen. Gifted with intelligence and determined to shape her own future she worked as an actress in TV and film, barmaid, security guard, filmmaker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator, and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She had an MA in film from the American University in Washington, DC, and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University, UK. She wrote eleven crime novels under the name Mo Hayder, and her fifth novel, Ritual, was nominated for the Barry Award for Best Crime 2009 and was voted Best Book of 2008 by Publishers Weekly. Gone, her seventh novel, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Two of her books, The Treatment and Ritual, have been made into films, and her novel Wolf was nominated for Best Novel in the 2015 Edgar Awards and is currently being adapted for the BBC. Prior to her diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease in December 2020, she had completed The Book of Sand and the first drafts of three more books in this series of speculative fiction, from which she took her greatest personal writing satisfaction. She passed away in July 2021 as a result of MND. She lived her life as a creative artist, never afraid to challenge her personal boundaries or those set by the establishment. She leaves behind a husband and daughter, a powerful legacy of books, and an incredible number of people who loved and admired the many facets of her diamond personality.

About Kristin Atherton

Kristin Atherton is a voice talent and audiobook narrator. She is a talented actress who has performed at National Theatre Live and for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has been cast in the role of Jamie Fraser’s sister Jenny Murray in the second half of Outlander Season 7 on STARZ. She was born in 1986 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josephine on February 09, 2022

I know I am deathless… Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself, 20 – from The Book of Sand This was never going to be an unbiased review as I was friends with the author of The Book of Sand. Even though I rushed to preorder, I was tentative about reading it when it arrived. Would it be too distressing because......more

Goodreads review by Peter on November 15, 2021

Embed a mystery in your book and you may snag a reader for the whole journey even if they are increasingly suspicious of where it might be going, what it might mean - and of course the hazard of the modern multi-book deal - you never really solve it at all. The Book Of Sand starts with two concurren......more

Goodreads review by bookishcharli on January 14, 2022

As we all know I love a good dual timeline book! This one starts out with Spider and his family, though they aren’t related but they’re a group of people who consider themselves a family, as they are trekking through a desert in the sand trying to find an object which could be anywhere in the desert......more

Goodreads review by Adrian on December 02, 2021

This one wasn’t for me sadly. The duel storyline in the first half of the (overly long) book held my interest to see where it would go but that ended half way though the book. The thing was I found the storyline that only lasted half the book more interesting than the main one. The book is way to lo......more

Goodreads review by Jo on January 30, 2022

I gave this book 2 stars because, quite frankly, I feel guilty giving 1 star to a book that seemed, to me at least, to be the author, who died in 2021 very quickly after a 2020 diagnosis of Motor Neurone disease, trying to come to term through her writing, with her pending mortality. I really feel f......more

Quotes

“An utterly original novel from an extraordinary creative mind, The Book of Sand is an absolute standout that's impossible to put down.” Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author

“Unique and fearless.” Mark Billingham, bestselling author of the Tom Thorne series

“I inhaled it! It's beautifully written and utterly compelling.” Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange and The Lies You Told

“Audacious, extraordinary, and absolutely awesome.” Alex North, New York Times bestselling author of The Whisper Man

“Fearless and compelling, lyrical and devastating by turns, the story never slackens pace. A stunning introduction to a wholly original world.” Jane Corry, bestselling author of My Husband’s Wife

“A future classic that exists between darkness light. I was completely entranced by it.” Christopher Fowler, award-winning author of the Bryant & May mysteries

“A huge and brilliant and engaging read. It feels like a place I have been to rather than words on a page.” Alice Jolly, award-winning author of Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile

“An epic novel…Simply brilliant…Inventive, beautiful, and thrilling.” Bookreporter

Awards

  • io9/Gizmodo
  • Tor.com Pick
  • Barnes & Noble Favorite Indie Book
  • Amazon Editors' Pick
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