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Run

By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
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Publisher's Summary

A moving story of overlapping lives from the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto

Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increasingly strained by their father's protective plans for them.

But when they are involved in an accident on an icy road, the Doyles are forced to confront certain truths about their lives, how the death of Doyle's wife Bernadette has affected the family, and an anonymous figure who is always watching...

©2023 Ann Patchett (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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‘[S]pectacular... Full of suspense, exciting and unpredictable, this is a novel that keeps you guessing until the end.' (Viv Groskop)

'Run is a novel with timeless concerns at its heart – class and belonging, parenthood and love... The book...is satisfyingly bold in its attempt to say something patient and true about family.' (Andrew O'Hagan)

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