The voices
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In the scorching summer of 1976--the hottest since records began--Christopher Norton, his wife Laura and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London. The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking sound. Then come the voices. For Norton, the voices mark an exciting opportunity. Putting his work to one side, he begins the project of a lifetime--a grand symphony incorporating the voices--and becomes increasingly obsessed with one voice in particular. Someone who is determined to make themselves heard...
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I don't know how Tallis did this but this book FEELS like it was written in 1976. I kept checking the pub date in the book, almost refusing to believe this wasn't a reprint. As a result we have a seriously spooky haunted house story AND a war of the sexes between men of a certain mind toward women and their roles in society and women who are in the process of becoming woke. If you ever wondered what people did all day before the internet, here you go. I don't think Chris and Laura even owned a tv.
Read it for the twisted horror story. I don't want to give anything away, but this one is really, really nightmare inducing. It's terrifying that the target is a cherub of a toddler but also the whole idea of capturing ghost voices to use in a symphony is super cool.
Here's one to read on a chilly October night!
I was going to give this 3 stars but the final 2 chapters are brilliant and nudged it up to a four.
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