The Unseeing

De: Anna Mazzola

Narrado por: Liz Pearce

Edgar Award Winner, Best Paperback Original, 2018

It is 1837, and the city streets teem with life, atmosphere, and the stench of London. Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother, has been sentenced to hang for her role in the murder of Hannah Brown on the eve of her wedding. Edmund Fleetwood, an idealistic lawyer, is appointed to investigate Sarah's petition for mercy and consider whether justice has been done. Struggling with his own demons, he is determined to seek out the truth, yet Sarah refuses to help him. Edmund knows she's hiding something but needs to discover just why she's maintaining her silence. For how can it be that someone with a child would go willingly to their own death?

The Unseeing is a vividly written novel of human frailty, fear, and manipulation and of the terrible consequences of jealousy and misunderstanding.

©2016 Anna Mazzola (P)2017 Recorded Books

based on truth

I loved the fact that it's based on truth you can actually find out more yourself

The Unseeing

This is a part factual and part fictional story of a woman in the 1800s convicted of aiding disposal of a murdered woman in England. The historical facts of her imprisonment in the notorious Newgate prison and the conditions inside the prison are eye opening. The description of life for the population not in prison borders on the conditions of the times given by Charles Dickens. .
Although macabre it is a fascinating book. I recommend it.

sara

loved it! kept me on the edge of my seat! I liked the historic information at the end

loved it kept me in suspense throughout.

it was a great story kept me on the edge of my seat. i also enjoyed the historic ending by the author.

loved it.

I loved it. keeps you guessing until the end. You get attached to the characters.

It's amazing that nothing has changed.

Great story based on some true facts. I find it amazing what those in power will do to the less powerful. Pride is a direct line to your end.

what a fantastic story!

the story is so well told the narrator is brilliant, the details, the characters the plot....I just loved everything about this rich detailed glimpse into the past!!

Great Thriller

This story kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Great narration.

Amazing read

Short & sweet review until I’ve a full one up: If you were into “Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood, you’ll love this novel. Set in the 1800s, a woman faces death for being an accessory to a crime that she claims to have known nothing about. What follows next illustrates how the justice system was corrupt back then, how certain elements of it will always be corrupt if we keep this standard of justice seeking & how it affected women & children of the time. It was a really engaging read & I ended up nearly filling the rest of my review journal (50 pages or so) of just notes on this novel for a review for next week.

Story Dragged

The only reason we finished this book is because we were on a road trip