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  • The Night Child

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  • Written by: Anna Quinn
  • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
  • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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The Night Child

Written by: Anna Quinn
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Publisher's Summary

Exquisitely nuanced and profoundly intimate, The Night Child is a story of resilience, hope, and the capacity of the mind, body, and spirit to save itself despite all odds.

Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl’s face appears above the students’ desks—“a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Nora’s body—the kind of raw terror you feel when there’s no way out, when every cell in your body, your entire body, is on fire—when you think you might die.”

Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, a terrible secret is discovered—a secret that pushes Nora toward an even deeper psychological breakdown.

This breathtaking debut novel examines the impact of traumatic childhood experiences and the fragile line between past and present.

©2018 Anna Quinn (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Hard to read, but a beautiful story

This amazing novel by Anna Quinn, beautifully narrated by Cassandra Campbell, is at times hard to read and may be a trigger for some. What the human mind can do to protect itself is truly extraordinary, and the pain the protagonist goes through gives us hope. I found this to be a beautiful story.

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Too dark

I couldn’t finish the story. It was extremely depressing and dark - others may enjoy it, but it was too much for me

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