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.

[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.

[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.