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Portrait in Sepia
- Author
- Isabel Allende
- Narrator
- Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 18 June 2026
- Run Time
- 11 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘If you were thrilled by The House of the Spirits, you'll love this’ Marie Claire
As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that erased the first five years of her life from her mind. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, she grows up with privilege, comfort and everything she could ask for.
But while she is free of the limitations that most other women face, she is tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what had such a devastating effect on her young life all those years ago.
Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga, peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits. This engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.
Critics Review
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You’ll find it hard not to be beguiled by the charm and ingenuity of Allende’s storytelling
The Times
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A compulsively readable, colourful, informative and entertaining novel
Sunday Tribune
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Details
- Author
- Isabel Allende
- Narrator
- Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duration
- 11 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 June 2026
- ISBN
- 9781526693129
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Historical fiction, Family saga / generational saga fiction
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende, read by Blair Brown with Isabel Allende‘If you were thrilled by The House of the Spirits, you'll love this’ Marie ClaireAs a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that erased the first five years of her life from her mind. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, she grows up with privilege, comfort and everything she could ask for.But while she is free of the limitations that most other women face, she is tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what had such a devastating effect on her young life all those years ago.Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga, peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits. This engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.
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