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Title: The Causeway

Author: P. M. Hubbard

Narrator: Barnaby Edwards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

While out for a short run in his sailing boat, machinery salesman Peter Grant runs aground on a small off-shore island; an uncharted piece of Scotland's west coast. A taciturn couple comes to his aid, but retired Commander Barlow is a man with a secret, and his wife Lettie is clearly afraid of something. A silent bond forms between Peter and Lettie, and as their touch-less, kiss-less passion deepens through erratic brief encounters, burly Barlow's trips across the tide-created causeway grow ever more compulsive.

Praised by critics for his clean prose style, characterisation and the strong sense of place in his novels, Philip Maitland Hubbard was born in Reading, Berkshire and brought up in the Channel Islands. He was educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for English verse in 1933. From 1934 until its disbandment in 1947 he served with the Indian Civil service, then for the British Council, before retiring to work as a freelance writer. He contributed to a number of publications, including Punch, and wrote sixteen novels for adults and two children's books. He lived in Dorset and Scotland, and many of his novels draw on his interest in and knowledge of rural pursuits and folk religion.

Members Reviews:

Appreciated By Fellow Sailors

For one who sails, it is a novel to experience one's hobby...vicariously....while reading the pages of a stellar gothic mystery.

Obsession

For the price (if one is not a small boat enthusiast) of reading a few pages of technical boat details, the reader gets a haunting tale of love, hate and suspense. Peter Grant, a farm equipment salesman and small boat enthusiast, is relatively new to the northern coast of England when he is forced to beach his sailboat on an unfamiliar coast. He thinks he sees someone and help is at hand, but no one comes. He finds an apparently uninhabited, but not derelict house which leaves him with a sense of dread. In the distance, he sees another house, but discovers that two hundred yards of water separate him from it: he is on an island. As he regroups, the owner of the house in the distance, Barlow, appears and offers to put him up for the night. The island is not quite an island, a natural causeway to the mainland appears at ebb tide. Grant is immediately obsessed with Barlow's unhappy wife, Letty. Part of her problem is Barlow's obsession with the island. Mr. Hubbard uses these basic elements to weave a suspenseful story as the characters try to resolve their obsessions