Double Room

Authors
- Anne Sénès
Narrators
- Richard Cotton
Publisher
- Oakhill

Duration: 4H 26min
Language: English
Format
Category: Fiction

London, late 1990s. Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. The play will never be staged, but Stan meets Liv, the love of his life, and their harmonious duo soon becomes a trio with the birth of their beloved daughter, Lisa. Paris, today. After Liv's accident, Stan returns to France surrounded by darkness, no longer able to compose. He shares his life with Babette, a lifeguard and mother of a boy of Lisa's age, and Laïvely, an AI machine of his own invention endowed with Liv's voice, which he spent entire nights building after her death. . . But Stan remains haunted by his past. As Laïvely seems to take on a life of its own, memories and reality fade and blur. . . and Stan's new family implodes. . .

Translators: Alice Banks

Release date

Audiobook: 19 June 2025