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Title: The Farm

Author: Tom Rob Smith

Narrator: James Langton, Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-14

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 437 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The new international bestseller from the author of phenomenal Child 44 trilogy...

The Farm

If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son.

Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden. But with a single phone call, everything changes.

Your mother...she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. She's had a psychotic breakdown, and been committed to a mental hospital.

Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow.

Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of a crime and a conspiracy that implicates his own father.

Critic Reviews:

"His mastery of suspense will make any reader's heart pound." (Financial Times)

Members Reviews:

Don't Waste Your Time

What disappointed you about The Farm?

This was perhaps the worst book I've read in quite some time. Characters were very well described, and while the first few chapters were captivating, boredom set in shortly thereafter. The majority of the book is set in the eyes of the mother, her account of her childhood and also adult life after returning to her native Sweden. She tells of scandal and her husband's attempts to commit her to a psychiatric ward. Long story short though, the book lacked purpose, as little happens until the last chapter. Plot development is beyond slow... I would not recommend this book to others.

Sadly, Super Boring

What disappointed you about The Farm?

A lot disappointed me about The Farm. I did not care for the boring mom's endless, punishing recounting of her tale. I was staggered each time she repeated a mind-numbing detail, or produced a new, uninteresting storytelling device... A couple times I wondered if the author was deliberately trying to be boring. The Child 44 series was so outstanding, that I still love this author. But, please, TRS, no more like this one.

Bring on the Crazy...

I made it to the end, is about all I can say. Thanks to a recommendation from a source I can usually trust, (Books on the Nightstand) I tried this book. There are a lot of twists and turns, all of which are incredibly predictable. And there is no subtext - everything is text. In case you miss some of the subtext, the author restates it on several occasions.

The readers capture the earnestness of the prose with breathless pronouncements. It's not their fault - the author wrote it this way. I kept thinking to myself, "Is she really that crazy?" , "Is he really that gullible"? Yes, yes they are.

I won't spoil it for you...though it's really hard to spoil. You'll see the ending coming a mile away.

Clever narration, unusual story

After hearing about this audio book on the Books on the Nightstand podcast and knowing that Smiths Child 44 books received high praise, I decided to check it out. First I have to talk about the two-person narration. Its really effective and I think thats because of the way it was done - its not a straightforward narration where each person has a set piece of the story, instead its interwoven together as mother and son have conversations.