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So Many Ways to Begin

14 Ratings

3.6

Duration
10H 49min
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English
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Fiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie.

© 2017 Fourth Estate (Audiobook): 9780008228477

Release date

Audiobook: 9 February 2017

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