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Length 9 hours 17 minutes
Language English
Narrators Avita Jay & David Sibley

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières, read by Avita Jay and David Sibley.

A sweeping, heartbreaking novel following Daniel in his troubled marriage with Rosie as they navigate the unsettled time between the World Wars.

Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day. However, even in the lush plantation hills it is hard for them to escape the ties of home and the yearning for fulfilment that threatens their marriage.

Back in England, Rosie's three sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches for family, purpose and happiness. These are precarious times, and they find themselves using unconventional means to achieve their desires. Around them the world is changing, and when Daniel finds himself in Germany he witnesses events taking a dark and forbidding turn.

By turns humorous and tragic, gripping and touching, So Much Life Left Over follows a cast of unique and captivating characters as they navigate the extraordinary interwar years both in England and abroad.

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over, The Dust That Falls From Dreams and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels, the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

Audiobook details

Narrators:
Avita Jay & David Sibley

ISBN:
9781473559646

Length:
9 hours 17 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Random House

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

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Reviews

De Bernieres is a singular, cherishable voice Richly enjoyable...Written with such vitality...many readers will read it straight through forgetting whatever it was they should have been doing instead of reading A breathless, often heart-tugging tale of love, loss, guilt and regret A wonderful… vividly peopled novel… De Bernières is a generous storyteller

This tragicomic romp has a winning glint in its eye, delivering oodles of
Downton-esque entertainment as it portrays a changing Britain poised uneasily on the brink of modernity

This book made me laugh, made me mad, made me cry ‘[de Bernieres] balances humour and tragedy in a novel that succeeds largely because Daniel is such a compelling and sympathetic character de Bernieres achieves a kaleidoscope effect in his narrative… So Much Life Left Over is an immersive pleasure Richly enjoyable…it is written with such vitality….I would guess that many readers, once they have launched themselves into it, will read it straight through An engaging family saga Expand reviews
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