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The Butterfly Lampshade
- Author
- Aimee Bender
- Narrator
- Julia Whelan
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 30 July 2020
- Run Time
- 7 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Family life fiction
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On the night her mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter. Next to the couch on which she's sleeping, there is a lamp that catches her eye, its shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie sees a dead butterfly floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see.
Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact: she is sure these things were real. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories have over her, and with what they say about her place in the world.
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Details
- Author
- Aimee Bender
- Narrator
- Julia Whelan
- Duration
- 7 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 July 2020
- ISBN
- 9781004008940
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Family life fiction
Synopsis
Told in lush, lilting prose, The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and of a broken love between mother and child.On the night her mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter. Next to the couch on which she's sleeping, there is a lamp that catches her eye, its shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie sees a dead butterfly floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see.Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact: she is sure these things were real. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories have over her, and with what they say about her place in the world.
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