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Bloomsbury presents Dark is the Morning, written and read by Rupert Thomson.

Sometimes love isn’t where you belong

In a mountain village in the Abruzzo region of Italy, Gino, a troubled young man, realises that his childhood sweetheart Franca can give his life the happiness and stability he needs. They seem made for each other, and move to a remote house in the countryside - but there is something in Franca’s past that haunts Gino.

Descending into pathological jealousy and resentment towards a married man who had been Franca’s lover, Gino is unable to stop himself imagining the worst, and embarks on a violent path that has catastrophic consequences.

Shifting between tenderness and paranoia, beauty and tragedy, this is an extraordinary novel from one of the UK’s most unpredictable and celebrated writers.

Critics Review

A wonderfully moody, moving novel, shot through with sadness and with strangeness, and with a simmering power entirely its own.
Sarah Waters
Lyrical, intense, and haunting, Thomson's Italian psychodrama displays incredible narrative mastery and has the elegance and fluency of a fable. So beautifully written.
Chloe Aridjis
Beautiful and seething. I liked it deeply.
Claire-Louise Bennet
An extraordinary writer
Samantha Morton
Utterly gripping. There isn’t a writer on the planet who mines the precariousness of the human condition with such terrifying power and clarity.
Julie Myerson
Gripping
Literary Review
Compelling ... an unsettling fable of a romance infected by obsessive jealousy. Themes of love, magic and madness play out with Rapunzel vibes, wreathed in woodsmoke.
The Gloss
Thomson's skill is to layer his trademark style of stunned, post-traumatic prose with the seething energy of gossip and paranoia ... It is perhaps the ideal holiday read: frictionless at the level of the sentence; stealthy, romantic and utterly unpredictable in every other way.
Financial Times
A beautifully wrought, achingly sad exposition of flawed and frail humanity
Saga
Author Rupert Thomson
Narrator Rupert Thomson
Duration 6 hours and 59 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781035909605
Format Audiobook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre Fiction: general and literary
Availability AU, GB, IE

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