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OverviewA touching, clever novel about stories, about using them to create your own identity, and about the way they can forge bonds of love. It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. She keeps him alive for their four-year-old son, Jack, by telling the story of a man she calls The Balloonist, who went away in a hot-air balloon and has adventures in exotic countries. When she is asked to nurse a returned soldier whose head injury has reduced him to an animal-like state with no memory, Elizabeth starts telling her stories to him. It is through them that she manages to engage his interest and offer him a new life . . . in more ways than one. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carl Nixon , Julian ElferPublisher: Tantor Audio Imprint: Tantor Audio ISBN: 9798874636166Publication Date: 26 December 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCarl Nixon is an award-winning short story writer, novelist, and playwright. His first book, Fish 'n' Chip Shop Song and other stories went to number one on the New Zealand bestselling fiction list and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. In 2007 he won the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition. Nixon completed his first novel while he was the Ursula Bethell/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at Canterbury University in 2006. Rocking Horse Road saw him identified as 'a major talent' by North & South, and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards 2009. His second novel, Settlers' Creek, was also long-listed for the IMPAC in 2012. Both novels have also been published in Germany. His writing for theatre includes The Birthday Boy and The Raft, numerous plays for children, and he has adapted for the stage Lloyd Jones's novel The Book of Fame and JM Coetzee's Disgrace. British-born Julian Elfer is an award-winning New York City-based actor and audiobook narrator with over 100 titles to his credit. Hailed by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal for his lead performance in the Mint Theatre Company's A Day by the Sea, Julian brings a unique facility for characterization in fiction and an empathy for the personalities and events of the past. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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