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A MOTHER WITH AN EMPTY NEST IS BEING HAUNTED BY A GHOSTLY CHILDREN'S CHOIR ARE THEY GIVING HER AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE THAT ONLY SHE CAN HEAR OR ARE THEIR MOTIVES MORE SINISTER Louise Beeston is being haunted Louise has no reason left to stay in the city The Orphan Kindle She can't see her son Joseph who is away at boarding school where he performs in a prestigious boys' choir Her troublesome neighbor has begun blasting choral music at all hours of the n. This is the first book in years that has physically infuriated me It gets 2 stars only because the protagonist gets what I wanted her to get at the endThis is the story of Louise Beeston contender for most annoying mother of the year who is plagued by a neighbour who plays loud music a few times and therefore naturally sends our hero into fits of absurd hysteria and also has to contend with the pain of having her son away at a choir school and she wants him back One hundred pages in and she seemingly solves this little 'problem' This whole section is boring and pointless and most importantly not scary So as a ghost story this fails beyond anything I've ever read I was haunted by the sadness and melancholia of works like The Road which did not have ghosts in it at all and this just asserts the piss poor scares this book provides A third of the way in brief ghostly moment Then nothing for another hundred then mildly evocative ghostly moment then wild ending which came from nowhere The main problem and this is the reason I disliked the protagonist She shouts a lot Not just a bit but all the time when she isn't shouting at the council for not locking up her neighbour she's shouting at her husband for not being supportive or she's shouting at her son's tutor for keeping him somehow against her will Then she shouts some and moans and then bizarrely at the end she flips completely and becomes so calm and eerie I think she inhaled a truck load of drugs The narrative that Sophie Hannah utilises is a choice which is very popular at the moment and I fail to see how The problem with a first person present tense is that the writing cannot help but feel sloppy and this is no exception The language is basic which is fine except that the way one though flows to the next reads at times like a stream of consciousness which means we're stuck in the fucking diarrhoea that is the protagonist's bowel of a brain In conclusion not scary stick to psychological thrillers please
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The Orphan ChoirOor And why won't they stop Growing desperate she begins to worry about her mental healthAgainst the pleas and growing disuiet of her husband Louise starts to suspect that this sinister choir is not only real but a warning But of what And how can it be when no one else can hear itIn The Orphan Choir Sophie Hannah brings us along on a darkly suspenseful investigation of obsession loss and the malevolent forces that threaten to break apart a loving family. I have read most of Sophie Hannah's books and have liked them all but this is the worst book I have ever read