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The Fragments
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
From the award-winning, best-selling author of Addition and Nine Days, a superbly crafted and captivating literary mystery about a lost book and a secret love.
Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book - and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers.
Nearly 50 years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in line to see a Karlson exhibition featuring the famous fragments when she meets a charismatic older woman. The woman quotes a phrase from the Karlson fragments that Caddie knows does not exist - and yet to Caddie, who knows Inga Karlson’s work like she knows her name, it feels genuine.
Caddie is electrified. Jolted her from her sleepy, no-worries life in torpid 1980s Brisbane, she is driven to investigate: to find the clues that will unlock the greatest literary mystery of the 20th century.
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- catherine shovlin
- 07-05-20
A rare find... kept me engaged throughout
I enjoyed this book so much I only listened to it in small juicy dollops so it would last longer.
Both worlds - the tough times of USA in the 30s, and pre-internet Brisbane seemed alive and real.
Such a pleasure to read something that doesn’t over explain but assumes the reader has the intelligence to put two and two (or some fragments!) together.
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