THE POISON GARDEN

Narrator Rachael Beresford adopts a series of British accents as she narrates this story about a group that has survived an apocalypse. Almost every adult in North Wales is dead. One of the few survivors is 21-year-old Romy, who was raised in a cult called The Ark. Romy, who is pregnant, is now wandering the countryside. Having been trained as a gardener, she collects poisonous plants, ostensibly for destruction. Slowly and patiently, Beresford delivers this toxic tale of death and fear of the future. Romy is portrayed as a mixture of naïve young woman and deadly agent of The Ark who is hiding her mission to assassinate the survivors who remain. This story of terror and cult indoctrination unfolds through Beresford's fluid, emotive reading. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2020]