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A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
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A Ladder to the Sky

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Length 11 hours 32 minutes
Language English
Narrators Richard E. Grant, Richard Cordery, Nina Sosanya & Laurence Kennedy

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, read by Richard E. Grant, Richard Cordery, Nina Sosanya and Laurence Kennedy.

A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice your soul.


If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They donโ€™t even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career.

A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful than him. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter entirely.

Once Maurice has made his name, he sets off in pursuit of other peopleโ€™s stories. He doesnโ€™t care where he finds them โ€“ or to whom they belong โ€“ as long as they help him rise to the top.

Stories will make him famous but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse.

John Boyne is the author of fifteen novels for adults, six for younger readers, and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet, and opera. His many international bestsellers include The Heart's Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky. He has won four Irish Book Awards, including Author of the Year in 2022, along with a host of other international literary prizes. His novels are published in sixty languages.


Twitter: @JohnBoyneBooks
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Reviews

A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . compelling and terrifying, powerful and intensely unsettling. In Maurice Swift, Boyne has given us an unforgettable protagonist, dangerous and irresistible in equal measure. The result is an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation. Maurice Swift, the novelist protagonist of John Boyneโ€™s A Ladder to the Sky, is a bookish version of Patricia Highsmithโ€™s psychopathic antihero Tom Ripley. A dark morality tale in the mould of Patricia Highsmith . . . consistently intriguing Everything the wonderful Irish novelist John Boyne writes is special . . . a highly entertaining read Gripping . . . John Boyne is a master storyteller and fans will doubtless be captivated by this chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition Expand reviews
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