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The Blue Window audiobook

  • By: Suzanne Berne
  • Narrator: Graham Halstead
  • Category: Contemporary Women, Fiction
  • Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2023
  • Language: English
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The Blue Window Audiobook Summary

From the Orange Prize-winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood comes a riveting novel about a therapist whose attempts to unlock the most difficult cases of her life–those of her son, and of her mother–reveal that the bigger the secret you’re concealing, the more it conceals you.

Secrets abound in Lorna’s family. Her mother Marika, who survived the Nazi occupation of Holland, abandoned the family when Lorna and her brother Wade were just seven and twelve years old. The reason she left, and her whereabouts afterward, were shrouded in mystery. As is a darker secret Marika has repressed for nearly seventy years.

Now that Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, has a child of her own, she’s determined to make Marika a part of their lives. But it’s been a struggle for nearly two decades. Lorna’s son Adam is creative, passionate, and uncomfortable in his own skin. Three weeks before the story opens, he abruptly returns home from college after an incident that he refuses to discuss. And he refuses to be called by his name. He refers to himself as “A” for “anti-matter” and insists that Lorna do the same.

The more Lorna tries to get Adam to talk, the more he withdraws. So, when she gets the call that Marika has had a fall and is incapacitated, she sees an opportunity to bond with Adam on the long drive north to Vermont, and to reconnect with her mother by nursing her back to health.

But how do you care for people you can’t understand, and who don’t want to be understood? As Lorna confronts this question, she must face secrets of her own, which she has tried to ignore by spending her life analyzing other people.

A deft and compelling exploration of family dynamics infused with suspense, Blue Window shows what happens to people who hide from themselves–and the act of imagination it takes to find them.

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The Blue Window Audiobook Narrator

Graham Halstead is the narrator of The Blue Window audiobook that was written by Suzanne Berne

About the Author(s) of The Blue Window

Suzanne Berne is the author of The Blue Window

The Blue Window Full Details

Narrator Graham Halstead
Length 8 hours 26 minutes
Author Suzanne Berne
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date March 28, 2024
ISBN 9781797150048

Subjects

The publisher of the The Blue Window is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Contemporary Women, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the The Blue Window is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781797150048.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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