When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr Y in a second-hand bookshop, she cant believe her eyes. Shes read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorious, and rarest, book. It is also believed to hold a curse. Anyone whos ever read it, including Lumas, has disappeared without trace. With Mr Y under her arm, Ariel is thrust into an adventure of faith, physics, love, death, and everything in between...This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the authors work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.