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Susan Hill

Susan Hill is a prize-winning novelist, having been awarded the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys awards, as well as having been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She wrote Mrs de Winter, the bestselling sequel to Rebecca, and the ghost story The Woman in Black, which was adapted for the stage and became a great success in the West End. Her books include a collection of exquisite short stories, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read, and the highly successful crime novel series about the detective Simon Serrailler. Susan Hill lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing firm, Long Barn Books.

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Title:

A Kind Man (MP3)

Written by:

Susan Hill 

Read by:

Maggie Ollerenshaw 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

4 hours 28 minutes 

MP3 size:

189 MB 

Published:

January 28 2017 

Available Date:

January 28 2017 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489377197 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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Bestselling author

'Hill's writing here is superb, conveying emotion and pain in the sparest of prose ... a comforting keenly moving tale of endurance and the eternal springs of friendship and love.'
Literary Review

Susan Hill proves once again that she is one of our very best storytellers in this transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle.

Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour of knowing him. There had never been a day when he had not shown her some small kindness. The birth of a daughter, Jeannie Eliza, crowns the young couple's happiness – just as her shockingly early death casts them low. But they do not need to talk about Jeannie because she remains with them, and their love does not change. In some ways it is no wonder that one of them falls ill, for grief takes its toll, and one Christmas even Eve's sister Miriam is remarking that Tommy looks unwell. But what happens next is entirely unexpected, not least for the kind man.

'Concisely captures primal emotions and offers astonishing transformations ... Movingly perceptive.'
The Sunday Times

'It has a power beyond its pages; a haunting resonance between each stark sentence that stayed with me ... The delicate balance between kindness and bitterness, hope and despair, a dying man and a dying town, are almost unbearably poignant.'
The Independent on Sunday