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Narrated by:
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Ulli Birvé
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By:
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Zoë Morrison
About this listen
I have no use for forgiveness, not yet. But other ideas like that, kindness, for example, I think that is fundamental. Resurrection; I like that too. And love, of course, love, love, love.
Alice Murray learns to play the piano aged three on an orange orchard in rural Australia. Recognising her daughter’s gift, her mother sends Alice to boarding school in the bleak north of England, and there Alice stays for the rest of her childhood. Then she’s offered a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, and on a summer school in Oxford she meets Edward, an economics professor who sweeps her off her feet.
Alice soon finds that Edwards is damaged, and she’s trapped. She clings to her playing and to her dream of becoming a concert pianist, until disaster strikes. Increasingly isolated as the years unravel, eventually Alice can’t find it in herself to carry on. Then she hears the most beautiful music from the walls of her house …
This novel’s love story is that of a woman who must embrace life again if she is to survive. Inspiring and compelling, it explores the dark terrain of violence and the transformative powers of music and love.
2016, The Readings Prize New Australian Fiction, Winner
2017, Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Newcomer of the Year, Short-listed
2017, ALS Gold Medal, Winner
2017, Voss Literary Prize, Short-listed
©2016 Zoë Morrison (P)2017 Bolinda PublishingCritic Reviews
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- Anonymous User
- 21-04-2018
Heartbreaking
A very well-written story, and definitely worth listening to, but the main character was terribly frustrating. Perhaps, given her upbringing, and the times, she could have been no other way, but I wanted to slap her - which is rather ironic, given the subject matter. A testament to the tragedy of passivity. The gaps in communication between the characters were a mile wide. I felt the narrator did quite a good job, except that her voice was a bit flat. The ending was possibly too neat.
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- Jo
- 26-02-2022
Excellent - highly recommend
This was a wonderful book, heart wrenching in parts and hard to listen to but achingly beautiful to listen to and the way the descriptions of music thread threw the story is magical. It’s intense, confronting but a rewarding read.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-10-2024
Beautifully written
It will pull you in and keep you hoping and wishing until the end. A wonderful story, I didn’t want it to end.
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- Susan Byrne
- 24-11-2017
Brilliant
Loved this v evocative novel. Great insight and sensitivity in to the emotional abuse of women. Beautifully read. Most topical too. Perhaps too slow for some , but I felt equally as good as Chessel Beach.
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