| Record Number |
806730 |
| ISBN |
9780143792383 |
| 0143792385 |
| Author |
Dovey, Ceridwen author. |
| Title |
In the Garden of the Fugitives [electronic resource] / Ceridwen Dovey. |
| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Camberwell] : Penguin Random House Australia Audio, 2018. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 online resource (1 audio file (09 hr., 10 min., 56 sec.)) |
| Performer note |
Read by Paul English and Gabriella Maselli McGrail. |
| Summary Note |
From the award-winning author of Only the Animals comes an unputdownable novel of obsession, guilt, and the power of the past to possess the present. Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives an email from her old benefactor, Royce. Once, she was one of his brightest protégés; now her career has stalled and Royce is ailing, and each has a need to settle accounts. Beyond their murky shared history, both have lost beloveds, one to an untimely death, another to a strange disappearance. And both are trying to free themselves from deeper pasts, Vita from the inheritance of her birthplace, Royce from the grip of the ancient city of Pompeii and the secrets of the Garden of the Fugitives. Between what's been repressed and what has been excavated are disturbances that reach back through decades, even centuries. Addictive and unsettling, In the Garden of the Fugitives is a masterpiece of duplicity and counterplay, as brilliantly illuminating as it is surprising - about the obscure workings of guilt in the human psyche, the compulsion to create, and the dangerous morphing of desire into control. It is the breakthrough work of one of Australia's most exciting emerging writers. |
| Subject |
Women motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction |
| Benefactors -- Fiction |
| Guilt -- Fiction |
| Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction |
| Excavations (Archaeology) -- Fiction |
| -- Fiction |
| Downloadable audio books. |
| Added Author |
English, Paul (Narrator) |
| McGrail, Gabriella Maselli narrator. |
| Internet Site |
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