The Thicket

8 hrs. 59 min.

Language Russian

Author Nina Loren

Narrator Mila Manysheva

Description

Right after graduation, Stephanie fled from the backwater town of Marley to Montreal, hoping to finally forget about her drinking mother, a poor life in a shabby little house, a cheating boyfriend, and silly stories about a witch supposedly living in the nearby forests. But fifteen years later, having lost her job as a journalist, Stephanie is forced to return to her home wilderness. She hopes to revive her podcast about nine-year-old Michelle Fortier, who disappeared in 1979—because after a recent flood, while inspecting a wall in an abandoned house, child remains were discovered… The deeper Stephanie sinks into old secrets, the more she gets stuck in a swamp of lies, superstitions, and unspoken prohibitions. And do the local legends really not lie—and is the town truly cursed?