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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

By: Richard Flanagan
Narrated by: Essie Davis
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 In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.

When Anna’s finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful story about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots.

Read by acclaimed Australian actress Essie Davis.©2020 Richard Flanagan (P)2020 Penguin Random House Australia Fiction Genre Fiction Magical Realism Fantasy Magic
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Australian to the core, storytelling at it's best, narrated with absolute mastery. Thank you for this sad but brilliant gift.

Simply Outstanding

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A challenging, deeply confronting but endlessly astonishing book. Extraordinarily visual, beautiful writing. A book about death - and life. Moving and disturbingly thought-provoking. Also very beautifully narrated. Thank you, Essie.

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

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Thank you once again Mr. Flanagan. A superb piece of work. A book I know will always be there gently steering me.

Brilliant

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terrible narrator.. sorry. too much interpretation and unable to listen to this one.. read it instead

narrator too much

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Hi the reader volume changes so often to very sift then very loud, it made listening ti it uncomfortable and detracted from the book. I couldn’t finish it. I only got a few chapters in

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