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Coming Up for Air

A remarkable true story richly reimagined

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Coming Up for Air

Yazan: Sarah Leipciger
Seslendiren: Elliot Cowan, Deborah McBride, Claudia Jessie
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Three extraordinary lives intertwine across oceans and time.

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Canada where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live.

Taking inspiration from a remarkable true story, Coming Up for Air is a bold, richly imagined novel about the transcendent power of storytelling and the immeasurable impact of every human life.

© Sarah Leipciger 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 Classics Family Life Friendship Genre Fiction Kadın Kurgu Kurgu Literary Fiction Medical Biyografi
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Coming Up For Air confirms Sarah Leipciger as a major talent. A meditation on mortality and our will to survive and save, it's really bold in its weaving of three ingeniously linked storylines and rich in sensuous detail and vivid characterisation. I can't wait for her next.
A stunning, stirring story told with exceptional skill and rare beauty.

Sarah Leipciger captures the nature of solitude and stillness in a way that no other writer does. THE MOUNTAIN CAN WAIT was a wonder. COMING UP FOR AIR expands her range even further, exploring that eerie shoreline where land and ocean meet, where breathing becomes drowning, and life teeters on the very edge.
An extraordinary, three-century braid of air and water: the way we float, the way we drown, the way we surface again against the odds.
Vivid, evocative, moving. I loved it
Here is a novel that dares to cross the boundaries of time, the elements, life and death, and does so with the twists and hooks and magic of a consummate story teller.
Spellbinding and beautifully written . . . an extraordinary novel. I can’t wait to read what Leipciger writes next.
Exceptional skill... exquisite descriptions... Fact and fiction flow together like two rivers conjoining and making together for the sea... a beautiful novel of compassion...
Dazzling . . . A stunning interwoven story of three threads set in different times and countries . . . I savoured every word of its beautiful prose.
Hauntingly melancholic and richly detailed
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I loved this, with water weaving it’s way through all three of the characters stories, I finished it in super quick time as I felt immersed with them. An unusual and fascinating book.

A wonderful, unusual story.

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A clever clever piece of storytelling! I’m of French origin and of course knew of l’inconnue de la Seine story including the absence of any details on the real young woman which led to her legend being created over the years. I have only praise that particular chosen imagined version of her story, as plausible as any other. I admire the way the three storylines come together.
I am very surprised that this book has not become more well known. It is beautifully written, the melancholic style suits the narratives and helps cope with the hard to listen to sections which come up on several occasions. I did wonder at times if those were maybe gratuitous but decided that probably not. It feels like the author is very respectful of her subjects and her readers. I enjoyed the voices of the chosen narrators and their reading style except the unnecessary insertion of quite bad French accents for only some of the French characters, was it to remind us of where we were???
Anyway, a great listen and I hope this becomes more well known as a book in its own right before Netflix or other get hold of it and can claim the fame!!!

A hidden gem

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A delight to listen to this beautifully written book performed by an excellent trio of artists

Beautifully written and performed

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Beautiful, poetic tale about love in its many forms, death, nature, illness and grief in 3 different countries and times. At the end it all comes together and there is a kind of happy end. Only criticism would be the occasionally wrongly pronounced French words.

Just beautiful!

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
This book bored me silly 10 hours of my life I will never get back

One very boring book

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