The Strangers, Jacqueline West
The Strangers, Jacqueline West
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The Strangers

Author: Jacqueline West

Narrator: Lexy Fridell

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2014


Synopsis

It's Halloween night when strangers come to Linden Street...and something dear to Olive goes missing. To what lengths will she go to get it back? Can she trust the strangers? Will she turn to a new and dangerous magic within the paintings of Elsewhere? Or will she put her faith in her own worst enemies to save the people and home she loves? The stakes grow higher, the secrets more dangerous, and mystery and magic abound as Olive, the boys, and the cats uncover the true nature of the house on Linden Street.

About Jacqueline West

A two-time Pushcart nominee for poetry, Jacqueline West lives amid the bluffs of Red Wing, Minnesota, with her husband and their dog, Brom Bones. This is her fifth novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Darran on June 10, 2025

An exceptional book. A really original work of creative non-fiction. I am struggling to think of analogues. There are some resemblances to classic African American writing like Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. I guess maybe Red Plenty by Frances Spufford, but that's mainly because it......more

Goodreads review by Dave on November 02, 2024

Would I really choose to read a book about a person of the nineteenth century theatre, an Arctic explorer, a footballer (that last you can place in italics)? Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X, maybe. But I did and I am so very glad. I ordered The Strangers (from my local library) simply because I always ap......more