The Obituary Writer

Name: The Obituary Writer
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Lauren St John
ISBN: 9781409157090

Author: Lauren St John

Narrator: Joe Coen

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orion

Published: 12/04/2014

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Nick Donaghue, a handsome young obituary writer for THE TIMES, leads a charmed existence until he is caught up in one of Britain's worst ever train crashes. When he survives unscathed, his friends and colleagues consider him the luckiest man alive. Only Nick knows the truth - that he is tormented by horrific nightmares. When they start to appear grimly prescient, his meticulously constructed urban life is derailed.

Escaping to the wilds of Cornwall strikes him as the answer, especially after he becomes captivated by a beautiful woman and a tempestuous horse he sees playing on a beach. But when his nightmares return, they threaten his fragile new world.

As Nick struggles to understand his dreams, his demons and, most dangerously of all, his passions, he realises that falling in love might come at a terrible price.

Read by Joe Coen

(p) 2014 Orion Publishing Group

About Lauren St John

Lauren St John was born in Gatooma, Rhodesia, now Kadoma, Zimbabwe. At 11, she and her family moved to Rainbow's End farm and game reserve, the subject of her acclaimed memoir, and she grew up surrounded by animals, including eight horses, two warthogs and a pet giraffe. After nearly a decade as golf correspondent to The Sunday Times, followed by a sojourn in the US, riding the tour buses of alt. country stars like Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and the Dixie Chicks, she wrote the bestselling 'White Giraffe' series. 'Dead Man's Cove', the first in her new mystery series about 11-year-old detective, Laura Marlin, won the 2011 Blue Peter Favourite Story and Book of the Year Awards.Lauren's website is http://laurenstjohn.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @laurenstjohn

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark

This was a really enjoyable read - well-written and paced. It's a novel which challenges the reader in a good way, because it doesn't follow a standard plot that you might expect from the cover blurb or genre (though it would be difficult to put this into a single genre). I was genuinely thrown off......more

Goodreads review by Michael

The novel starts off well when Nick, an obituary writer for The Times survives unscathed from a train crash only to suffer dreams that foretell the death of others. At this point it seems to fit the horror/mystery genre but like Nick's train crash it comes off the rails and starts to head for romanc......more

Goodreads review by Lynn

Being heralded as a crime title is a mistake most whole heartedly! Lauren St John has exited the world of Children's fiction with this exceedingly beautiful novel as her début in adult fiction. Nick Donaghue is living a materialistic life in London trying to encapsulate all that he promised an early......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I don't think this is a great work of literature but perhaps my years reading and decoding Times obituaries and fondness for wild Cornish retreats has biased me to a more favourable review - at the heart is a damaged writer and a woman he meets (with a mysterious horse - probably too much melodrama......more