The Snakes: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

“The Snakes is many things-a parable and an ancient drama in which a father’s greed devours his children, a police procedural, an avid undertake tabloid venality, and a bitter comedy, superbly observed, where behind a woman’s eye she is ‘all movement inside herself, just like a wasp inside a glass.’ I admit that I’m still shaken by parts of this novel. Sadie Jones writes with pitiless aplomb and corrosive intelligence.”-Louise Erdrich

A chilling page-turner and impossible to put straight down, THE SNAKES is about The Snakes: A Novel Sadie Jones at her finest: breathtakingly powerful, brilliantly incisive, and absolutely devastating.

The new book by Sadie Jones tells the anxious and violent tale of the Adamsons, a dysfunctional English family, with excellent prosperity, whose darkest secrets get back to bite them. Set mostly in rural France during modern occasions, THE SNAKES is an all-consuming read and a devastating family portrait of how cash corrupts, and exactly how chance can deal a deadly hand.

THE SNAKES exposes the damage wreaked by parents on children as observed by a new member of the family, Dan, a mixed-race guy from Peckham who marries Bea, the girl who refuses to take any of her father’s filthy money. However when Bea’s brother Alex (who works a shabby hotel in Paligny, France) dies suddenly in unexplained circumstances, the misunderstandings and suspicion which occur bring various other dark family secrets-and violence-to the surface. And none from the family, even the nice members, proceed untouched.