August Blue

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, TIME MAGAZINE


The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home

At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance.

Now she is in Athens, watching as another young woman, a stranger but uncannily familiar - almost her double - purchases a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.

So begins a journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who bought the dancing horses.

A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, August Blue uncovers the ways in which we seek to lose an old story, find ourselves in others and create ourselves anew.

'A writer at the peak of her talents' Lisa Appignanesi

'There's no one touching the brilliance of Deborah Levy's prose today' Lee Rourke

'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson

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Authors:
Levy, Deborah
Year Published:
2023
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780241421314
Number of Pages:
256
Publication Date:
04/05/2023
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Place of Publication:
London
Language:
English
SKU:
9780241421314

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