- Title:
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A Superior Spectre
- Written by:
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Angela Meyer
- Read by:
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Paul English; Eloise Oxer
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 29 minutes
- Published:
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November 28 2018
- Available Date:
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November 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489469830
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Longlisted Australian Book Industry Award / Small Publishers' Adult 2019
A highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity, and our dangerous entitlement to it, and reminds us the scariest ghosts aren’t those that go bump in the night, but those that are born and create a place for themselves in the human soul.
Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories, grappling with shame, he runs away from his home in Melbourne to rural Scotland with a piece of beta tech that allows him to enter the mind of someone in the past. Instructed to use it no more than three times, Jeff – self-indulgent, isolated and deteriorating – is in no mood to play by the rules.
In the 1860s, Leonora lives in the Highlands, surrounded by nature. Her contented life and a secret romantic friendship with the local laird are interrupted when her father sends her to live with her aunt in Edinburgh. But Leonora’s ability to embrace her new life is shadowed by a dark presence that begins to lurk behind her eyes, and strange visions that threaten her sanity.
A novel about curiosity, entitlement and manipulation, about voyeurism, control and self-doubt, this imaginative, bold debut asks provocative questions about identity and the boundaries of the self. Dystopian, speculative and compelling, A Superior Spectre steps into the territory of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
‘... an eerie, gothic work that is both a richly detailed historical novel and a chilling prediction of the near future.’
Books+Publishing
‘In turns horrible, sweet, erotic, tense, challenging, beautiful, disgusting, solemn, abhorrent and moving ... a novel no serious reader will forget in a hurry.’
Booktopia