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Cursed bread

Mackintosh, Sophie2023
Audiobooks
If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. Elodie is the baker's wife. A plain, unremarkable person, largely ignored by her husband and everyone else, she burns with the secret hunger to be extraordinary, to be desired, to be seen. One day a charismatic new couple appear in town - the ambassador and his sharp-toothed wife, Violet - and Elodie quickly falls under their spell. All summer long she stalks them through the shining streets: inviting herself into their home, trying to decipher their coded conversations, longing to possess them at any cost. Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life, strange things are happening. Six horses are found dead in a sun-drenched field, laid out neatly on the ground like an offering. Widows see their lost husbands walking up the river in the night, coming back to claim them.
Main title:
Cursed bread / Sophie Mackintosh.
Edition:
Unabridged edition.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Random House Audiobooks, 2023.
Collation:
5 CDs (5 hr., 21 min.) : digital, stereo
Performers:
Read by Genevieve Gaunt.
ISBN:
9780241677193 (CDs)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
1303975
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