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Fellside

By: M. R. Carey
Narrated by: Finty Williams
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Summary

Jess Moulson is convicted of murder. But it's a murder she can't remember committing. Nothing is quite clear from the drug-fuelled night when a blaze set in Jess' apartment killed the little boy upstairs. But when the media brands her a child killer, she starts to believe it herself.

Now she's on her way to Fellside, the biggest, most formidable women's prison in Europe, standing in the bleak Yorkshire moors.

But Jess won't be alone in her prison cell. Lurking in the shadows is an unexpected visitor...the ghost of the 10-year-old boy she killed. He says he needs her help - and he won't take no for an answer.

©2016 M. R. Carey (P)2016 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"Haunting, heartbreaking." ( Vogue on The Girl with All the Gifts)
"As fresh as it is terrifying." (Joss Whedon on The Girl with All the Gifts)
"A masterpiece." ( Sun on The Girl with All the Gifts)
"Scary, tense and fast-paced...but with a heart-warming tenderness." ( Marie Claire on The Girl with All the Gifts)
"If you only read one novel this year, make sure it's this one, it's amazing." (Martina Cole on The Girl with All the Gifts)

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Genre-Hopping Mystery Drama

With Fellside M R Carey has attempted something very ambitious. The story genre-hops considerably before settling very much into a paranormal mystery. Imagine Prison Break as a setting for Luke Smitherd’s Physics of the Dead with some meaty courtroom drama popping up along the way and then a full paranormal mystery drama emerging. The plot becomes much more subtle than it first appears which requires considerable scene setting before the momentum builds towards a quite gripping ending.

Given where the majority of the book is set it’s no surprise that the violence is hard and uncompromising. It’s made even starker by the fact that much of it involves women as either the perpetrators or victims or indeed both!

I don’t think everyone will be entirely convinced that the whole thing works. There did seem to be an incongruence between some facets of the story. The "fresh" innocence of the ghost did not feel genuinely convincing to me when set against the bleak backdrop of tough characters and their desperate plight. It didn’t quite sit right particularly through the middle of the book.

The acid test though was passed for me as I cared what happened to these characters, not just Jess, right up until the end. Throughout the book there are some powerful scenes but it’s the last third that really demands attention if you can accept the paranormal premises that are put forwards.

Finty Williams is a classy narrator and a good story teller. If she struggled with anything it was in not quite being able to carry the threat of the nastier of the characters with full conviction. Other than that she carries off a difficult task with a very enjoyable performance.

In summary this is a deep book which ambitiously attempts to cover multiple genres. I think it just about pulls it off and the plot contains a number of genuine and in some cases quite subtle surprises. The way it mixes the genres might be unsettling for some but I think it’s well worth investing in.

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Conflicted

I feel conflicted by this book and the need to review it.

What I enjoyed about the book: it was well written, the narration is good, and the idea is new(ish), or rather, it's a different take on the supernatural world of ghosts than I've previously read.

What I didn't enjoy: occasionally, the plot was a little tenuous or convenient for the author; it wasn't a very uplifting read/listen.

I was left feeling a little bit hollow by this book. Just like "Girl with all the Gifts", there is no happy ending where our heroine conquers all. But equally, with this story, what other ending could there be, and still be "realistic"? It's a brutal story, very little positive going on, and the imagery is stark.

Certainly, it was well written and narrated. And if you're a fan of MR Carey, and/or this genre, then it's worth a punt. I will probably buy the next MR Carey book too, but I'll be sure to have a good, uplifting, humour-filled story standing by to pick me up afterwards.....

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I do not believe in angels, and ghosts are so pass


I was looking forward to this book, and got it the day it came out, I did not read any publisher setups or early reviews, I just dove in. It is intriguing and complex full of twist and turns, it has a mystery murder story with a courtroom story and jailhouse story that is not bad at all. They all run parallel to each other and build up to a nice crescendo, but the ghost part of the story just did not work for me, it could be because New Age sensibilities; I find them morally simplistic like the regressive left they just leave me cold. I think it was just messy, too much like a plot device and not cemented in any background theology, just too amorphous and convenient. So as a literary device that part of the book was lost to me. I will not give anything away because I think others may enjoy the discoveries.

Entertaining multifaceted, with many plots to enjoy but a flawed supernatural. A book that tried to be too many things, new age with a shank and drug addiction.

The reader is an excellent storyteller with distinguishable voices and characters.



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Really good interesting book a must read

I loved this book as well as the previous book by M.R. Carey. They are so different from any thing else I have listened to. If you like well written imaginative books this is for you.

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I story that keeps you guessing

Firstly the genre of the book confused me, but the story was engaging, I couldn't stop listening. That also has something to do with the narrator, who I found to be amazing.

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An awesome ghost story

It keeps you guessing and has some great visual set pieces. the characters are believable and each emotional experience they go through you feel as if you're there with them.

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Fabulous and compelling. Carey is on fire!

Sadly, books of this quality turn me into an antisocial hermit - I just can't be doing with people trying to talk to me when there's a good book on the go.

Finty's reading is delicious, characterful and accurate, with none of the distracting errors of pronunciation found elsewhere.

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thoroughly enjoyed throughout

great story, good characters, nicely written, nicely read, better than girl with all the gifts. thank you for the entertainment.

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Another winner from M R Carey

This is a wonderful novel. It's bleak, yet uplifting, brutal but so tender. The blurb is above so I won't go into the plot, but it is an immersive, epic story and I found myself unable to bear the tension at times, the harsh conditions and cruel treatment of prison inmates, by each other and the warders, making it difficult to listen to at certain points, yet unable to stop.

But there is light in here too and it comes in the form of a ghostly companion who guides poor Jess while revealing to us the worlds which lay within our unconscious dreaming minds.

M R Carey's writing is beautiful and persuasive, he really can carry a story. He must have done a great deal of research for Fellside to be so convincing, but it wears its learning lightly.

I think this is a more than worthy follow up to The Girl with all the Gifts, and I think it confirms the writer as a talented and genre-defying author of genius.

Highly recommended.

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Challenging to Listen To.

Loved the 'The Girl With All The Gifts' and looked forward to listening to a different book by this author. My experience when listening, although uncomfortable at times, the story certainly kept my attention going especially with the wonderful voice of Finty Williams. A book that gives you lots of pauses for thought when you are put into the shoes of someone else. There were some faults with the story itself, as it works hard to mix different genres together.

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