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The Woman on the Stairs
- Author
- Bernhard Schlink
- Narrator
- Jonathan Oliver
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 24 November 2016
- Run Time
- 5 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the woman in the painting, the woman on the stairs.
One by one they track her down to an isolated cottage in Australia. Here they must try to untangle the lies and betrayals of their shared past - but time is running out.
The Woman on the Stairs is an intricately-crafted, poignant and beguiling novel about creativity and love, about the effects of time passing and the regrets that haunt us all.
Read by Jonathan Oliver
(p) 2016 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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Fans of Bernhard Schlink will recognise in his latest novel the themes of an unconventional love affair played out in the shadow of recent German history
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an ingenious set-up
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Details
- Author
- Bernhard Schlink
- Narrator
- Jonathan Oliver
- Duration
- 5 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 November 2016
- ISBN
- 9781409162926
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the woman in the painting, the woman on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an isolated cottage in Australia. Here they must try to untangle the lies and betrayals of their shared past - but time is running out. The Woman on the Stairs is an intricately-crafted, poignant and beguiling novel about creativity and love, about the effects of time passing and the regrets that haunt us all.Read by Jonathan Oliver(p) 2016 Orion Publishing Group
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