Are there bits missing in the audio version?

[openidwouldwork]

Hello again ;)

Slowly catching up! Being home sick (wrecked wrist) has some advantages... reading/listening time!

Finished listening to 'Foxglove Summer'...

... and can't help but wonder: are there bits missing in the audio version?

Not only does the recording stop before the end of the book (there has to be at least one chapter, likely more, missing) there are so many narrative strands flapping about untied-up.

I suppose I'll have to figure out how to get to the library and lend the book...

Comments

[philomytha]

I don't know about the audiobook, I think my version of it was fine but you've got me wondering now. The book does end quite abruptly. There's an epilogue/bonus short story, 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny' which deals with some of the threads a little more, it was only available originally in the Waterstones edition of the book, but I think it's been republished in the short story collection and you can likely find it floating around somewhere online too.

[openidwouldwork]

Thanks for the tip! *goes search*

[openidwouldwork]

Found!

Love the 'kidnapped grandmother' bit!

But somehow that raises even more questions about the fairy queen and her changeling programme... if she wanted properly socialised offspring, a fostering agreement via the Folly might be needed... and you can't but pity whoever gets saddled with not-Nicole... wait, sending her to Mama Thames and her court of no-nonsense nurses might work...

*wanders off to find out what happens...*

[vaznetti]

I haven't listened to the audiobooks, but Foxglove Summer does have an extremely abrupt ending: you may not actually be missing any text. (Unfortunately!) As philomytha said above, there was a short story attached to one of the editions which wraps up one of the hanging threads. One of the other hanging threads gets picked up again a few books later.

[openidwouldwork]

Thank you!
Audible says it's an 'Unabridged Audiobook'... which is utterly baffling. If that had been the first book of the series I'd 'read', I wouldn't have picked up another...

[beatrice_otter]

The book ends with the scene of Bev rescuing him on the train. If that's where your audiobook ended, yes, it's really and truly the end of the book, odd as it is.

[openidwouldwork]

That IS the end of the book? Er... but... ???