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The Ruins audiobook
- By: Phoebe Wynne
- Narrator: Dora Davis
- Category: Coming of Age, Fiction
- Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 05, 2022
- Language: English
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The Ruins Audiobook Summary
A suspenseful, feminist Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith, REBECCA, and ATONEMENT, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of a summer holiday on the French Riviera.
Welcome to the Chateau des Setes, a jewel of the Cote d’Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it.
Ruby Ashby adores her parents’ house in France, but this August, everything feels different. Unexpected guests have descended upon the chateau–friends of her parents, and their daughters–and they are keen to enjoy the hot, extravagant summer holiday to its fullest potential. Far from England, safe in their wealth and privilege, the adults revel in bad behavior without consequence, while the girls are treated as playthings or abandoned to their own devices. But despite languid days spent poolside and long nights spent drinking, a simmering tension is growing between the families, and the sanctuary that Ruby cherishes soon starts to feel like a gilded cage.
Over two decades later the chateau is for sale, its days of splendor and luxury long gone, leaving behind a terrible history and an ugly legacy. A young widow has returned to France, wanting to purchase the chateau, despite her shocking memories of what transpired that fateful summer. But there is another person who is equally haunted by the chateau, and who also seeks to reclaim it. Who will set the chateau free–and who will become yet another of its victims?
With riveting psychological complexity, The Ruins captures the glittering allure of the Mediterranean–and the dark shadows that wait beneath the surface.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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The Ruins Audiobook Narrator
Dora Davis is the narrator of The Ruins audiobook that was written by Phoebe Wynne
PHOEBE WYNNE is the author of Madam and The Ruins. She worked in education for nearly a decade and taught Classics in the UK and English Language and Literature in Paris. She is British and French, and currently splits her time between France and England.
About the Author(s) of The Ruins
Phoebe Wynne is the author of The Ruins
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The Ruins Full Details
| Narrator | Dora Davis |
| Length | 11 hours 59 minutes |
| Author | Phoebe Wynne |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | July 05, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781250855923 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Ruins is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Coming of Age, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the The Ruins is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250855923.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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