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Six Lives
- Author
- Lavie Tidhar
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 29 August 2024
- Run Time
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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SIX LIVES
Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.
THE GUANO MERCHANT
In 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes & Co.
MOMENTO MORI
In 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic.
THE COUNTRY HOUSE MURDER
In 1933, idealistic Edgar Waverley faces a choice of the heart when he becomes embroiled in a country house murder.
THE SPY
In 1964, hapless KGB agent Vasily Sokolov makes his career conjuring valuable information from worthless detritus.
ZABBALEEN
in 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at Black Dirt, the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo.
NEW YORK
In 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for al. Can she forge a new life for herself in the New World? Can you ever truly escape your past?
Critics Review
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I was blown away… Despite covering subjects as diverse as the Victorian guano trade, the KGB’s Cairo operations, post-mortem photography and an Agatha Christie-esque English country house murder, Tidhar manages to brilliantly realise each one
The Jewish Chronicle
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Take this 157-year grand tour in the most interesting of company... As travelling companions go, the Feebes family are hard to beat.
Tish Delaney
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Details
- Author
- Lavie Tidhar
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 August 2024
- ISBN
- 9781035909391
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Six Lives by Lavie Tidhar, read by Rory Alexander, Kishore Walker, Justin Avoth, Sara Alexander, and Lara Sawalha.SIX LIVESSix lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold.THE GUANO MERCHANTIn 1855, Edward Feebes travels to the guano islands of South America to investigate an irregularity in the accounts of the House of Feebes & Co.MOMENTO MORIIn 1912, post-mortem photographer and reluctant blackmailer Annie Connolly plots her escape from Ireland to America on board the Titanic. THE COUNTRY HOUSE MURDERIn 1933, idealistic Edgar Waverley faces a choice of the heart when he becomes embroiled in a country house murder. THE SPYIn 1964, hapless KGB agent Vasily Sokolov makes his career conjuring valuable information from worthless detritus.ZABBALEENin 1987, actor Mariam Khouri looks back at Black Dirt, the movie that lifted her from the streets of Cairo. NEW YORKIn 2012, Isabelle Feebes attempts to break with her poisonous heritage once and for al. Can she forge a new life for herself in the New World? Can you ever truly escape your past?
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