What Abigail Did That Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
What Abigail Did That Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
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What Abigail Did That Summer
A Rivers of London Novella

Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Shvorne Marks

Unabridged: 4 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/25/2021

Synopsis

Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker.

It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been left to her own devices. This might, by those who know her, be considered a mistake. While her cousin, police constable and apprentice wizard Peter Grant, is off in the sticks chasing unicorns Abigail is chasing her own mystery. Teenagers around Hampstead Heath have been going missing but before the police can get fully engaged the teens return home—unharmed but vague about where they've been.

Aided only by her new friend Simon, her knowledge that magic is real and a posse of talking foxes that think they're spies, Abigail must venture into the wilds of Hampstead to discover who is luring the teenagers and more importantly—why?

About Ben Aaronovitch

Before becoming a bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full-time, and every book in his Rivers of London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is published in fourteen languages and has sold more than 2 million copies around the world. Aaronovitch is also a trustee on the board of Cityread London and is a long-time supporter of Nigeria's premiere arts and cultural festival, The Ake Festival. He still lives in London, the city he likes to refer to as "the capital of the world."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lois on May 08, 2021

Continuing my Aaronovitch catch-up this weekend. I knew almost nothing about this book going in, more short YA novel than novella it turns out, though I'd become acquainted with Abigail as a character from earlier books in the Rivers of London series. Being in large part a magical mystery, not havin......more

Goodreads review by Leonie on March 20, 2021

I wondered if I'd like this one. I'm a real fan of the Peter Grant stories, and I wasn't sure if changing protagonists would work for me. Or the change to present tense, for that matter, because I often struggle with stories written using it. But I loved it. Abigail is an excellent protagonist, and th......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on September 02, 2021

Well now, it finally happened. I’ve been a big fan of Aaronovitch’s UF series for a while now but I haven’t been all that fond of the short stories. They were bite sized, even experimental or quirky, but they didn’t have all that much heft to them. THIS ONE, however, while being longer as a novella,......more

Goodreads review by Sara on September 19, 2022

I really liked this little divergent from the main Peter Grant series, which follows his cousin Abigail on one fateful summer adventure. There's talking foxes, missing children and one strange house oozing magic. Abigail has always been an interesting character, but with a fleshed out backstory and......more

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