Jolly Foul Play – the audio trailer!

March 19, 2016

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There are just FIVE DAYS LEFT until Jolly Foul Play is in stores in Britain and Ireland. It’s coming in paperback and ebook … and it will also be out as an audiobook download. The first three books in the series are read by the wonderful Gemma Chan, but for this book we have a new Hazel: Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films, and also Hsui Tai in ITV’s Cat Among the Pigeons. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know how special this is: that character was one of the inspirations for Hazel when I was first writing Murder Most Unladylike. It feels like things have come full circle!

A few weeks ago I went to hear Katie recording Jolly Foul Play, and I was totally delighted. She makes a fantastic Hazel – I love her reading of the character, and I’m so grateful to her for her hard work on it. I know you’re going to be just as happy as I am!

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Me and Katie in the Puffin recording studio!

And if you’re curious to know what she sounds like, you can now listen to a preview of Katie reading Jolly Foul Play in a beautiful book trailer. Puffin really have pulled out all the stops making it. The video really is the most perfect introduction to Jolly Foul Play! You can watch it below, or on Puffin’s YouTube channel here. Enjoy, and happy weekend! Roll on publication week!

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