The Museum of Broken Promises

Author:   Elizabeth Buchan ,  Joan Walker ,  Red Apple Creative/SNK Studios
Publisher:   Bolinda Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
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Publication Date:   01 November 2019
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Paris, today. The Museum of Broken Promises is a place of wonder and sadness, hope and loss. Every object in the museum has been donated – a cake tin, a wedding veil, a baby's shoe. And each represent a moment of grief or terrible betrayal. The museum is a place where people come to speak to the ghosts of the past and, sometimes, to lay them to rest. Laure, the owner and curator, has also hidden artefacts from her own painful youth amongst the objects on display. Prague, 1985. Recovering from the sudden death of her father, Laure flees to Prague. But life behind the Iron Curtain is a complex thing: drab and grey yet charged with danger. Laure cannot begin to comprehend the dark, political currents that run beneath the surface of this communist city. Until, that is, she meets a young dissident musician. Her love for him will have terrible and unforeseen consequences. It is only years later, having created the museum, that Laure can finally face up to her past and celebrate the passionate love which has directed her life.

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Author:   Elizabeth Buchan ,  Joan Walker ,  Red Apple Creative/SNK Studios
Publisher:   Bolinda Publishing
Imprint:   Bolinda Audio Books
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:  

9780655639305


ISBN 10:   0655639306
Publication Date:   01 November 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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'I ADORE cold-war novels and I live for love stories - The Museum of Broken Promises is a perfect combination of both. It's a gem of a book ... beautiful, elegant.' -- Marian Keyes, international bestselling author 'Intricately plotted and beautifully written, the characters and the setting stay with you and leave you yearning for Paris.' -- Katie Fforde


'I ADORE cold-war novels and I live for love stories - The Museum of Broken Promises is a perfect combination of both. It's a gem of a book ... beautiful, elegant.' -- Marian Keyes, international bestselling author 'Intricately plotted and beautifully written, the characters and the setting stay with you and leave you yearning for Paris.' -- Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Summer at Sea 'I've long considered Elizabeth Buchan to be one of our greatest living novelists, and this brilliant novel confirms it. A masterly writer at the very top of her game.' -- Peter James, author of the Roy Grace series 'So beautifully steeped in the spirit of a place, Two Women in Rome completely transported me to the city. Art, passion, and mystery - expertly layered, this is a rich and gorgeous book.' -- Eve Chase


'I ADORE cold-war novels and I live for love stories - The Museum of Broken Promises is a perfect combination of both. It's a gem of a book ... beautiful, elegant.' -- Marian Keyes 'Intricately plotted and beautifully written, the characters and the setting stay with you and leave you yearning for Paris.' -- Katie Fforde


'I ADORE cold-war novels and I live for love stories - The Museum of Broken Promises is a perfect combination of both. It's a gem of a book ... beautiful, elegant.' -- Marian Keyes, international bestselling author 'Intricately plotted and beautifully written, the characters and the setting stay with you and leave you yearning for Paris.' -- Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Summer at Sea 'I've long considered Elizabeth Buchan to be one of our greatest living novelists, and this brilliant novel confirms it. A masterly writer at the very top of her game.' -- Peter James 'So beautifully steeped in the spirit of a place, Two Women in Rome completely transported me to the city. Art, passion, and mystery - expertly layered, this is a rich and gorgeous book.' -- Eve Chase


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Elizabeth Buchan led a double life for a while as a publisher and author, managing to successfully pursue both careers simultaneously, until in 1994 she became a full-time writer and hasn’t looked back since. Her first novel for adults Daughters of the Storm, was set during the French Revolution. Her second, Light of the Moon, took as its subject a female undercover agent operating in occupied France during the Second World War. Her third novel, Consider the Lily, became an international bestseller and sold over 300,000 copies in the UK alone. Her subsequent novel Perfect Love, was described as ‘a powerful story: wise, observant, deeply-felt, with elements that all women will recognise with a smile – or a shudder’. Against Her Nature was then published in June 1998, critically acclaimed as ‘a modern-day Vanity Fair…brilliantly done’. The Independent on Sunday praised the most recent novel Secrets of the Heart, which ‘recalls E M Forster’s Howard’s End…and celebrates human resilience and flexibility’. Joan has 30 years of experience as an actress, enjoying all aspects of work including audiobooks, commercials, radio drama, TV, theatre and film. Recent theatre work includes a world tour of Mamma Mia! playing the man-eating Tanya; Lady Fancyfull, the ditzy schemer in The Provok'd Wife at Greenwich Theatre; and Ingrid in The Tide at the Soho Theatre. Favourite roles for BBC Radio Drama include Dorothy Parker in Regret is No Part of My Plan for Radio 4, Madame Beck in Villette for Radio 4 and the Voice of God in The Piper Alpha Disaster for Radio 3.

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