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Title details for The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan - Available

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

by Richard Flanagan
Essie Davis
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Read by Essie Davis, acclaimed for her roles in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and The Babadook.

An ember storm of a novel that draws listeners into a poignant and mesmerising story of family and ecological crisis.
'Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age.' - James Rebanks
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.
When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her others are similarly vanishing, but no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful story about hope, love, and orange-bellied parrots.
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'Extraordinarily visual, beautiful writing. A book about death - and life. Moving and disturbingly thought-provoking. Also very beautifully narrated. Thank you, Essie.' Listener Review
'Incredible story, fantastically written. Such amazing depth of description and beautifully read by the wonderful Essie Davis. I thoroughly enjoyed listening.' - Listener Review

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