- Title:
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The Darkness of Wallis Simpson (MP3)
- Written by:
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Rose Tremain
- Read by:
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Gareth Armstrong; Jilly Bond
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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5 hours 51 minutes
- MP3 size:
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242 MB
- Published:
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March 28 2017
- Available Date:
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March 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489386441
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
'Classic, breathtaking Tremain.'
The Independent on Sunday
A wonderful collection of short stories from Orange prize-winning author, Rose Tremain.
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone – friend, foe or journalist – to visit her in her Paris flat.
Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.
The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. An East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life: He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his 'frame' – or does he? And there's a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel ...
'Moving and tragic ... the darkness of Rose Tremain is never far from the surface in this brilliantly written short story collection.'
Express UK
'Mordantly perceptive tales.'
Sunday Times