Edith Holler Audiobook

The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouseand the mysterious figure who threatens the theaters very survival

The year is 1901 Englands beloved queen has died and her aging son has finally taken the throne In the eastern city of Norwich bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave its confines Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar she decides to write a play of her own a stage adaptation of the legend of Mawther Meg a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of countless children to make the local delicacy known as Beetle Spread But when her father suddenly announces his engagement to a peculiar imposing woman named Margaret Unthank heir to the actual Beetle Spread fortune Edith scrambles to protect her father the theatre and her playthe one thing thats truly hersfrom the newcomers sinister designs

Teeming with unforgettable characters Edith Holler is a surprisingly modern fable of one young womans struggle to escape her familys controland to reveal inconvenient truths about the way children are used