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Double Room by Anne Sénès

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Double Room

Author
Anne Sénès
Narrator
Richard Cotton
Publisher
Oakhill
Publish Date
19 June 2025
Run Time
4 hours 26 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Fiction: general and literary
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London, late 1990s. Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play will never be staged, but Stan meets Liv, the love of his life, and their harmonious duo soon becomes a trio with the birth of their beloved daughter, Lisa. Paris, today. After Liv's accident, Stan returns to France surrounded by darkness, no longer able to compose. He shares his life with Babette, a lifeguard and mother of a boy of Lisa's age, and Laïvely, an AI machine of his own invention endowed with Liv's voice, which he spent entire nights building after her death. . . But Stan remains haunted by his past. As Laïvely seems to take on a life of its own, memories and reality fade and blur. . . and Stan's new family implodes. . .

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Author
Anne Sénès
Narrator
Richard Cotton
Duration
4 hours 26 minutes
Release Date
19 June 2025
ISBN
9781399192224
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Oakhill
Genre
Fiction: general and literary

Synopsis

London, late 1990s. Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play will never be staged, but Stan meets Liv, the love of his life, and their harmonious duo soon becomes a trio with the birth of their beloved daughter, Lisa. Paris, today. After Liv's accident, Stan returns to France surrounded by darkness, no longer able to compose. He shares his life with Babette, a lifeguard and mother of a boy of Lisa's age, and Laïvely, an AI machine of his own invention endowed with Liv's voice, which he spent entire nights building after her death. . . But Stan remains haunted by his past. As Laïvely seems to take on a life of its own, memories and reality fade and blur. . . and Stan's new family implodes. . .

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