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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Summer the Bay Started Watching
Chapter 3: — A Child on the Shore, a Mother Lost to the Deep
Chapter 4: — When the Myth Breaks Open
Chapter 5: — A Story Stolen, a Life Rearranged
Chapter 6: — Pearl’s Fire, and the Cost of Believing in Magic
Chapter 7: — A Blind Man in a Haunted Manuscript
Chapter 8: — Skye’s Side of the Story
Chapter 9: — Ink, Fire, and the Hole in the Cliff
Chapter 10: — Three Weeks in the Dark, and a Fragile Peace
Chapter 11: — Bloodlines, Book-Spells, and the Last Look Back
Chapter 12: — Whose Story Survives?
Description
Looking Glass Sound is a twisty, time-hopping tale about three teenagers who share one intense coastal summer—and the awful aftermath that follows them into adulthood. Wilder Harlow returns home with a story in his hands and a wound in his chest. Harper, brilliant and volatile, believes in magic when logic fails. Nat, kind and golden, lives under the shadow of a fisherman father and a terrible cave. Their secrets collide with a local myth: the Dagger Man, who photographs sleeping children and seems to move with the wind off the Atlantic. Decades later, Wilder falls for a charismatic classmate named Sky—who steals the manuscript of his life and turns it into a bestselling horror novel. The stolen story sinks like an anchor into all of them. Catriona Ward ties true crime to ghost story to literary theft, until memory, manuscript, and reality blur into one. By the end, the question shifts from who did it to whether anyone ever really leaves the page.
Who Should Listen
- Fans of literary thrillers that braid true crime, ghost story, and unreliable narration
- Readers who loved The Secret History, Sharp Objects, or metafiction like Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy
- Anyone interested in how memory and authorship remake a life—and how myths outlive facts