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Title: The Blue Book
Author: A. L. Kennedy
Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-16-11
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction
Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK - temporarily - Elizabeth may also be in flight from her past and the charismatic Arthur, once her partner in what she came to see as a series of crimes.
Together they acted as fake mediums, perfecting the arcane skills practised by effective frauds. Elizabeth finally rejected what once seemed an intoxicating game. Arthur continued his search for the right way to do wrong. He now subsidises free closure for the traumatised and dispossessed by preying on the super-rich. The pair still meets occasionally, for weekends of sexual oblivion, but their affection lacerates as much as it consoles. She hadnt, though, expected the other man on the boat.
As her voyage progresses, Elizabeths past is revealed, codes slowly form and break as communication deepens. Its time for her to discover who the true deceivers are and who are the truly deceived.
Whats more is the book itself - a fiction which may not always be lying - deceiving the listener? Offering illusions and false trails, magical numbers and redemptive humour, this is a novel about what happens when we are misled and when we are true: an extraordinarily intricate and intimate journey into our minds and hearts undertaken by a writer of great gifts - a maker of wonders.
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