- Title:
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Iris & Ruby
- Written by:
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Rosie Thomas
- Read by:
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Rula Lenska
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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15 hours 42 minutes
- Published:
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November 28 2017
- Available Date:
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November 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489018564
- Genres:
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Fiction; Sagas
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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Bestselling author
'Thomas can write with ravishing sensuality.'
The Times
A gripping and epic tale of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family.
The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black’s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn’t seen for years.
An unlikely bond develops as Ruby helps Iris document her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, and of her one true love – the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux – whom she lost to the ravages of war.
This lost love shaped Iris’s past – and will affect Ruby’s future in ways they could not have imagined …
'Her evocation of the wartime [Cairo] has all the raffish, glittering brittleness of life on the edge ... touches on the varieties and nuances of love between men and women, and the power of family relationships to enhance and destroy lives.'
The Daily Mail