Length9h 8m
About this audiobook
The Beautiful Gaol Twenty-two bodies wash up on a Kent beach in one November night. The official file says drowning. Then a pathologist’s second opinion finds a wound that drowning doesn’t explain — and a private security contractor who reached the beach before anyone else, cameras already out.
Three lives are about to collide with the answer: a police officer who won’t let the file close quietly, a Whitehall man who has built a career on not asking the second question, and a girl crossing half the world alone after losing everyone who promised to bring her home.
They are converging on a place built to look like sanctuary — a beautiful room, behind a beautiful gate, in a beautiful country that has learned exactly how much cruelty a good enough story can hide.
The Beautiful Gaol is a novel about the distance between a policy and the room where the policy actually happens.
Audiobook details
GenreOther
Length9 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
13Chapter Twelve
2Chapter One
14Chapter Thirteen
3Chapter Two
15Chapter Fourteen
4Chapter Three
16Chapter Fifteen
5Chapter Four
17Chapter Sixteen
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6Chapter Five
18Chapter Seventeen
7Chapter Six
19Chapter Eighteen
8Chapter Seven
20Chapter Nineteen
9Chapter Eight
21Chapter Twenty
10Chapter Nine
22Chapter Twenty-One
11Chapter Ten
23Chapter Twenty-Two
12Chapter Eleven
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