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The Night Child

By: Anna Quinn
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Exquisitely nuanced and profoundly intimate, The Night Child is a story of resilience, hope, and the capacity of the mind, body, and spirit to save itself despite all odds.

Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl’s face appears above the students’ desks—“a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora’s body—the kind of raw terror you feel when there’s no way out, when every cell in your body, your entire body, is on fire—when you think you might die.”

Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, a terrible secret is discovered—a secret that pushes Nora toward an even deeper psychological breakdown.

This breathtaking debut novel examines the impact of traumatic childhood experiences and the fragile line between past and present.

©2018 Anna Quinn (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Disturbing!

Do not read this if child abuse disturbs you. I kept thinking there would be a good twist to this book and am upset with myself for wasting 6 hours and 51 minutes of my time. There are no surprises here and it just drags on and on. Very predictable.

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More than I expected

It's about rape and molestation and incest. It was a lot to hear and unexpected.

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I wish there had been a trigger warning

I am not finished with this book and I don’t know if I can finish it. It is well written and beautifully performed but I would have never started reading this if I had known what it was really about- proceed with cation

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good book for anyone dealing with abuse.

offers a lot of views and coping skills for women annd children who have gone rhrough sexual abuse.

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Interesting

I liked the overall story. It was a bit slow and I thought the story plot would pick up. But it stayed the same throughout and then just ended. I would totally listen to it again though.

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WOW not what I was expecting!!! Glad I read it!

WOW Not but I was expecting!! Absolutely gut-wrenching!! the ending left me hanging. It felt incomplete and abrupt. maybe that's what the author intended

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Healing ending?

Very relatable and real possibility of this story line ringing true for someone. I loved the ending too!

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Shoot! Ended too quickly!

I so wanted to have more closure with the characters and outcome of this book! Left way too many unanswered questions. Is there a sequel?

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Ok but not great

Narration was good but the ending? not so much! the story itself was ok.

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ending of the book

I felt like it was unfinished at the end. There should have been at least another paragraph.

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