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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — Sirens Over Gipsy Hill
Chapter 3: — The Sunday Rounds
Chapter 4: — The Phone Call That Breaks Her
Chapter 5: — The Boy Who Feeds the Birds
Chapter 6: — The Night She Proves Herself Right
Chapter 7: — Summer Fields
Chapter 8: — Tea With the Enemy
Chapter 9: — The Hawthornes’ Doorstep
Chapter 10: — The Pearls, The Proof, The Choice
Description
The Midnight News follows Charlotte Richmond, a baronet’s daughter living on her own in South London as the Blitz begins. After losing her brother in France, Charlotte clings to her closest friend Elena “El” Hartwell—until El dies, and more deaths follow. Charlotte’s grief twists into obsession: she becomes convinced a “shadow man” is stalking her and using the raids to cover murder.
As air raids intensify and her mental health fractures into audible voices—echoes of the dead who comment, judge, and needle—Charlotte is pulled back into the control of her powerful family and committed to a psychiatric institution. There, brutal “treatments” threaten to erase her. When an enigmatic man with government ties offers a dangerous bargain, Charlotte is forced into a final reckoning with what is real, what is trauma, and what love costs in a world that can erase you overnight.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who want Blitz-era London with intimate, character-first tension rather than battlefield action.
- Fans of psychological, grief-driven stories about identity, class, and survival under pressure.
- Readers drawn to quiet, slow-burn relationships built through tenderness, fear, and moral compromise.