| Ten Things I've Learnt about Love Contributor(s): Butler, Sarah (Author), Duerden, Susan (Read by), Lee, John (Read by) |
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ISBN: 162460580X ISBN-13: 9781624605802 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $49.46 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: About to turn thirty, Alice is the youngest of three daughters and the black sheep of her family. Drawn to traveling in far-flung and often dangerous countries, she has never enjoyed the closeness with her father that her two older sisters have and has eschewed their more conventional career paths. She has left behind a failed relationship in London with the man she thought she might marry and is late to hear the news that her father is dying. She returns to the family home only just in time to say good-bye. Daniel is called many things--"tramp," "bum," "lost." He hasn't had a roof over his head for almost thirty years, but he once had a steady job and a passionate love affair with a woman he's never forgotten. To him, the city of London has come to be like home in a way that no bricks-and-mortar dwelling ever was. He makes sculptures out of the objects he finds on his walks throughout the city--bits of string and scraps of paper, a child's hair tie, and a lost earring--and experiences synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes him to see words and individual letters of the alphabet as colors. But as he approaches his sixties his health is faltering, and he is kept alive by the knowledge of one thing--that he has a daughter somewhere in the world whom he has never been able to find.A searching and inventive debut, Ten Things I've Learnt About Love is a story about finding love in unexpected places, about rootlessness and homecoming, and the power of the ties that bind. It announces Sarah Butler as a major new talent for telling stories that are heart-wrenching, page-turning, and unforgettable. |
Contributor Bio(s): Butler, Sarah: - Sarah Butler, author of Ten Things I've Learnt about Love, runs Urban Words, a consultancy which develops literature and arts projects that explore and question our relationship to place. She lives in London. Duerden, Susan: -Susan Duerden is a critically acclaimed audiobook narrator. Her reading of The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht earned her an AudioFile Best Voice Award and a Booklist Editors' Choice Award. She has won eight AudioFile Earphones Awards. Lee, John: -John Lee, a stage actor and writer and a coproducer of feature films, has narrated more than one hundred audiobooks of every conceivable genre, earning some three dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award. |