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Narrator

Anna Bentinck

Actress and producer Anna Bentinck trained at the Arts Educational School and has made over 800 broadcasts for BBC Radio. She voiced a character in the animated series 64 Zoo Lane, and on TV she has played Mary Dickens in Charles Dickens and Mary Rutherford in the Marie Curie series. Her many audiobooks include Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman, A Little Death by Laura Wilson and Queen Victoria by Evelyn Anthony.

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Title:

Missing the Midnight (MP3)

Written by:

Jane Gardam 

Read by:

Anna Bentinck 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

4 hours 47 minutes 

MP3 size:

197 MB 

Published:

November 01 2015 

Available Date:

November 01 2015 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489078377 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Short Stories & Anthologies 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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'Magic of the genteel English kind.'
The Sunday Times

Jane Gardam weaves strange and magical occurrences into the fabric of beautifully realised lives in this stunning short story collection.

Jane Gardam reveals again her brilliant diversity and deep understanding of the human condition. In 'Light', an evocative, lyrical piece of magic realism, a beautiful Himalayan girl defies the destiny laid out for her by her mother but in so doing destroys the village in which she was born. In 'Missing the Midnight', a young woman, having failed her exams and lost the man she loves, journeys home on Christmas Eve to the family she despises. In 'Grace' an apparently ordinary man lives his whole life with a diamond under his skin at the back of his neck and dies when it is finally removed.

'Missing the Midnight shows off Gardam's talents: her glittering use of colour; her unfussed, economical use of the telling detail.'
The Daily Telegraph

'This is a collection to unwrap slowly and carefully.'
The Guardian