The Diviners Tale, Bradford Morrow
The Diviners Tale, Bradford Morrow
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The Diviner's Tale

Author: Bradford Morrow

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/20/2011

Synopsis

The Diviners Tale is at once a journey of selfdiscovery and an unorthodox murder mystery, a tale of the fantastic and a family chronicle told by an otherwise ordinary woman. Walking a lonely forested valley in upstate New York, Cassandra Brooks comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities, the girl has vanished, leaving in question Cassandras credibility, if not her sanity. The next day, on a return visit, a dazed, mute missing girl emerges from the woods, aliveand the very picture of Cassandras hanged girl. What follows is the narrative of ever deepening and increasingly bizarre divinations that will lead this gifted young woman, the struggling single mother of twin boys, hurtling toward a past shed long since thought was behind her. When Cass dark forebodings take on tangible form, she is forced to confront a life spiraling out of control. And soon she is locked in a mortal chess match with a reallife killer who has haunted her since before she can remember.

About Bradford Morrow

Bradford Morrow is the author of nine novels, including The Forgers, The Diviner's Tale, and The Prague Sonata, as well as a short-story collection, The Uninnocent. He is the founding editor of Conjunctions and has contributed to many anthologies and journals. A professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College, he lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on January 09, 2013

Dear authors: I prefer books that consistently use quotation marks, break up long blocks of text, and allow me to get to know the main characters before spinning off into tangential anecdotes and history. Oh, and it'd be nice if we cared about the people who get killed off, too. Thanks! MG......more

Goodreads review by Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner) on February 05, 2011

Cassandra Brooks, a diviner by trade and a single mother of two boys, is hired to dowse the land for a developer in search of a water source. She finds much more than that as she sees a young girl hanging from a tree. She rushes to call the police and returns to show them the body only to find it ha......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on May 23, 2011

Considering I think I got this one at Christmas for £1, I wouldn't say it was a waste of money, but it certainly wasn't the greatest read. It was billed as a mystery, but after the first couple of chapters, it really wasn't grabbing my attention well at all. The narrator's meandering story, the cons......more

Goodreads review by Henrik on April 12, 2011

Like the two-star rating indicates: It was an OK read. No more, no less. In short, I was fascinated enough to want to read the story from cover to cover -- but too often the style and, well, "loose" storytelling annoyed me. I don't have a problem with stream-of-consciousness-like elements in a story,......more

Goodreads review by Jenn on August 23, 2010

The Diviner's Tale-by Bradford Morrow Let me first start off by saying, this review is unlike most of my reviews. It is more, for lack of better words, “mushy,” maybe. This is because, very rarely do I come across a book I read that I see a great future for. When I chose this book, a mystery-suspens......more

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