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Glass Town

by Steven Savile
Steve West
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Steven Savile is an international sensation, selling over half a million copies worldwide and writing for cult favorite television shows including Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Stargate. Now, he is finally making his US debut with Glass Town, a brilliantly composed audiobook revolving around the magic and mystery lurking in London.
There's always been magic in our world
We just needed to know where to look for it
In 1924, two brothers both loved Eleanor Raines, a promising young actress from the East End of London. She disappeared during the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's debut, Number 13, which itself is now lost. It was the crime of the age, capturing the imagination of the city: the beautiful actress never seen again, and the gangster who disappeared the same day.
Generations have passed. Everyone involved is long dead. But even now their dark, twisted secret threatens to tear the city apart.
Joshua Raines is about to enter a world of macabre beauty, of glittering celluloid and the silver screen, of illusion and deception, of impossibly old gangsters and the fiendish creatures they command, and most frighteningly of all, of genuine magic.
He is about to enter Glass Town.
The generations-old obsession with Eleanor Raines's unsolved case is about to become his obsession, handed down father-to-son through his bloodline like some unwanted inheritance. But first he needs to bury his grandfather and absorb the implications of the confession in his hand, a letter from one of the brothers, Isaiah, claiming to have seen the missing actress. The woman in the red dress hadn't aged a day, no matter that it was 1994 and she'd been gone seventy years.
Long buried secrets cannot stay secrets forever. Hidden places cannot stay hidden forever.
The magic that destroyed one of the most brutal families in London's dark history is finally failing, and Joshua Raines is about to discover that everything he dared dream of, everything he has ever feared, is waiting for him in Glass Town.

Praise for Glass Town:

"Steve West's narration creates a chilling atmosphere that matches Glass Town and its inhabitants perfectly." — AudioFile Magazine

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  • Release date

    December 5, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781427299628
      • File size: 364974 KB
      • Duration: 12:40:21

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 16, 2017
      English author Savile (Moonlands) sets this clichéd and grating urban fantasy in a barely recognizable 1994 London. After the death of Josh Raines’s grandfather, the aimless Josh finds out that the old man spent most of his life obsessed with a woman named Eleanor, who disappeared in 1924. Despite 70 years having passed, Josh recognizes Eleanor on the street, as young as when she vanished, identifiable from having appeared for a few minutes in a lost Hitchcock silent movie. Unfortunately for both Eleanor and the reader, her disappearance has to do with an estranged branch of Josh’s family, specifically his grandfather’s brother, Seth, a two-dimensional mobster and murderous sociopath who took Eleanor and a part of London itself with him out of time and space. Seth is evil for the sake of being evil, Josh has no actual characterization, and Eleanor serves mainly as an unattainable ideal off in the distance. Lacking strong leads, the novel is forced to rely on its sense of place, which is so poorly wielded that London could be replaced with Chicago by changing the names of the streets and the mobsters. The lost Hitchcock movie is by far the most intriguing element of the book, but Savile mostly ignores it. This effort is a poor introduction of Savile to a U.S. audience.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Steve West's narration creates a chilling atmosphere that matches Glass Town and its inhabitants perfectly. The story is about the Lockwood family's obsession with the actress Eleanor Raines. As their descendant, Josh, tries to find out the secrets of Glass Town, he slowly realizes that the town is filled with people from the past who are still around and have not aged at all. As the mystery continues, West's character voices add to the creepiness. Eventually, events become truly horrifying. With a plot that is more complicated than it needs to be, West's skillful narration helps keep the listener's interest. C.G. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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