Thunder on the Right, Mary Stewart
Thunder on the Right, Mary Stewart
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Thunder on the Right

Author: Mary Stewart

Narrator: Ellie Heydon

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/07/2019


Synopsis

From one of our most beloved authors, Mary Stewart, comes a thrilling tale set in a France as beautiful as it is deadly, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym.

High in the rugged Pyrenees lies the Valley of the Storms, where a tiny convent clings to the beautiful but lonely mountainside. Jenny Silver arrives seeking her missing cousin, and is devastated when she learns of Gillian's death following a terrible car accident. But Jenny's suspicions are aroused when she's told the blue flowers ornamenting her cousin's grave were Gillian's favourite. Jenny knows Gillian was colour-blind - and so starts her mission to uncover what really happened to her.

The growl and roar of thunder rolled an re-echoed from the mountains and the sword of the lightning stabbed down, and stabbed again, as if searching through the depths of the cringing woods for whatever sheltered there.

'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans

'She built the bridge between classic literature and modern popular fiction. She did it first and she did it best.' Herald'

'One of the most stupendously successful authors ever' Sunday Express

'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times

'One of the great British storytellers of the 20th century' Independent

'There are few to equal Mary Stewart' Daily Telegraph

(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Mary Stewart

Mary Stewart was one of the 20th century's bestselling and best-loved novelists. She was born in Sunderland, County Durham in 1916, but lived for most of her life in Scotland, a source of much inspiration for her writing. Her first novel, Madam, Will You Talk? was published in 1955 and marked the beginning of a long and acclaimed writing career. In 1971 she was awarded the International PEN Association's Frederick Niven Prize for The Crystal Cave, and in 1974 the Scottish Arts Council Award for one of her children's books, Ludo and the Star Horse. She was married to the Scottish geologist Frederick Stewart, and died in 2014.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on July 19, 2021

2.5 stars. The melodrama, it overwhelms. Jennifer Silver, a young British woman, travels to the French Pyrenees in search of her cousin, Gillian, who suddenly wrote that she was entering a French convent. Waiting for Jennifer in the beautiful French town of Gavarnie ... Gavarnie, France ... is Stephe......more

Goodreads review by Ellery on November 19, 2022

Not my favorite MS novel. It starts out strong, but loses steam in the middle. The narrative is hindered by overwriting at this point (what MS herself called purple prose). The atmospheric descriptions are strong and I loved her used of color blindness, but between a fainting heroine, an unlikeable......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on November 22, 2022

It has been donkey's years since I read one of Mary Stewart's thrillers, and this was never one of my favorites (Moonspinners forever!). But I happily fell right into her eloquent atmospherics and had myself a time. Jennifer Silver has come to a hotel high in the Pyrenees to reconnect with a cousin s......more