The Visitors, Catherine Burns
The Visitors, Catherine Burns
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The Visitors

Author: Catherine Burns

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2017


Synopsis

With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.

What becomes of a child who grows up without love?

Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John’s rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door...and to the women’s laundry in the hamper that isn’t hers. For years, she’s buried the signs of John’s devastating secret into the deep recesses of her mind—until the day John is crippled by a heart attack, and Marion becomes the only one whose shoulders are fit to bear his secret.

Forced to go down to the cellar and face what her brother has kept hidden, Marion discovers more about herself than she ever thought possible. As the truth is slowly unraveled, we finally begin to understand: maybe John isn’t the only one with a dark side....

About Catherine Burns

Born in Manchester, Catherine Burns is a graduate of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. She worked as a bond trader in London before studying at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and teaching film theory at the University of Salford. The Visitors is her debut novel.


Reviews

Let me just say this straight up: I LOVED this book. HOWEVER.........."big but coming in now" A bunch of readers are not going to feel the same. If you're looking for a heart-thumping thriller, you might want to skip this book for now. My mood as I started reading: I was burned out on baby abductions......more

Goodreads review by Miriam

"The Visitors" written by Catherine Burns was a really twisted, creepy and skin crawling book, that I loved reading from start to finish. Having been sent this book by a fellow reader, who highly recommended it, I was already expecting a good yarn but I was pleasantly surprised at just how much it c......more

This was a twisted, creepy thriller with a few literary fiction elements entangled in it. This will simultaneously thrill you and make you think for some time. The story of the brother (John) and sister (Marion) and the secret they hide might shock you in certain parts. The secret in the cellar that......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn

“We are only as blind as we want to be” --Maya Angelou The lies we tell ourselves because the truth is too painful to bear. There exists the heart of Catherine Burns’ magnificent debut novel, The Visitors. All those tiny deceptions we use to make ourselves feel better. To justify our actions. Excuse t......more