Salome and the Head by E. Nesbit audiobook.

Genre: thriller

Edmund Templar, a young Englishman on the verge of shipping out to the South African War, takes refuge with relatives and wanders the New Forest to steady his nerves. There, in a sunlit clearing, he witnesses an unforgettable scene: a wild, spellbinding girl dancing as a crippled boy plays a penny whistle, the two of them seeming to belong to some older, stranger story than his own. Years later, returned to civilian life and still haunted by that encounter, Edmund sets out to find them again - and is drawn into the limelight world of London performance, where beauty is a commodity, reputations are manufactured, and desire can be engineered as expertly as any stage effect. As the dancer is remade into a modern Salome for a hungry audience, Edmund begins to sense that the drama is not confined to the theatre. A secret refuge, a web of dependence, and hints of coercion and unnatural influence tighten around the principals, until the line between a prop and a reality becomes dangerously uncertain. Darkly romantic and sharply aware of the traps laid for women, Nesbit builds a macabre melodrama of obsession, artifice, and the price of being watched.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:24) Chapter 02

(00:47:27) Chapter 03

(01:10:25) Chapter 04

(01:27:10) Chapter 05

(01:54:00) Chapter 06

(02:18:50) Chapter 07

(02:41:21) Chapter 08

(03:06:04) Chapter 09

(03:37:05) Chapter 10

(03:56:59) Chapter 11

(04:25:20) Chapter 12

(04:57:07) Chapter 13

(05:24:32) Chapter 14

(05:42:30) Chapter 15

(06:05:39) Chapter 16

(06:41:19) Chapter 17

(07:05:51) Chapter 18

(07:29:50) Chapter 19

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