The Clairvoyants, Karen Brown
The Clairvoyants, Karen Brown
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The Clairvoyants
A Novel

Author: Karen Brown

Narrator: Megan Tusing

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2017

Synopsis

Karen Brown’s most hypnotic novel to date is gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift.On the family homestead where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in the flyers seeking information about a young woman who has disappeared―until one Indian summer afternoon when the missing woman appears beneath Martha’s apartment window, wearing a winter coat, her hair coated with ice.

About Karen Brown

Karen Brown is the author of several works, including Little Sinners and Other Stories, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the John Gardner Book Award, and was named a Best Book of 2012 by Publishers Weekly. Her Pins and Needles: Stories was the recipient of AWP’s Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has been featured in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, the New York Times, and Good Housekeeping. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of South Florida.

About Megan Tusing

Megan Tusing is an actress, known for The Beginning and the End, The Share, and Odd Jobs. She has a bachelor’s degree in theater from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by catherine ♡ on March 22, 2017

Actual Rating: 2.0 First of all, I was totally drawn in by the beautiful cover. It reminded me a bit of the covers for Mara Dyer, a series I absolutely loved. The blurb kind of reminded me of that too - both a little creepy and paranormal feeling, so I was excited to read this. The Clairvoyants follow......more

Goodreads review by Ariel on November 28, 2016

Martha sees dead people. Usually it's not a problem, she ignores them and they go away. That is until she moves to Ithaca, New York to go to college and sees missing posters all over town for a girl named Mary Rae who then begins appearing under her window. Martha tries to push aside thoughts of Mar......more

Goodreads review by Caryn on February 10, 2017

Full review & giveaway on my blog: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on July 15, 2017

I'm not really sure why the title is The Clairvoyants plural, because it's really just the narrator Martha Mary who's all: Perhaps the other clairvoyant is supposed to be her younger sister, Del (short for Delores), with whom she scammed the other neighborhood children (and at least one adult), but......more

Goodreads review by Ian on December 24, 2016

It almost feels like cheating to call this fantasy (which is I think the auspices under which I reviewed it); it's really just more of a literary novel with a slight supernatural edge. That's not a complaint, though; Brown's grasp on her narrator's voice and the tone and timbre of the whole story is......more

Quotes

“Karen Brown deftly manages to make the occult ordinary and the strange familiar in this surprising and suspenseful novel.” Lily Tuck, National Book Award–winning author

“Suspensefully ambiguous…The twists aren’t so much shocking as harrowing confirmations of what the story’s been trying to say against our narrator’s will the whole time.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)

“A master of intrigue, Brown has crafted a haunting mystery that will relentlessly push readers until the very end.” Booklist (starred review)

“Arresting, unsettling, and beautiful…Brown enchants and haunts by making the reader question every voice, every truth.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Gripping…Brown’s novel is a riveting page-turner.” Publishers Weekly

“Karen Brown draws us effortlessly into the mysterious world of The Clairvoyants, where the line between the dead and the living falls away. An enchanting novel.” Wendy Walker, bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten

“An eerie and affecting dose of Gothic fiction…Martha sees ghosts, and by the end of the twisting, quietly unnerving story, you will swear you do too.” Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts

Awards

  • Amazon Best Book of the Month
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