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From one of the U.K.'s most dazzling novelists - whom Richard Ford has called "a profound writer" - comes this daring new novel occur the unsteady, self-contained world of a luxury liner. While on a transatlantic trip with her soon-to-be-fiancé Derek, Elizabeth unexpectedly runs into ex-lover Arthur, with whom she stocks a shady former: the match once functioned as traveling spiritual mediums who conned the vulnerable by pretending to get hold of the spirits of departed loved ones. While Derek remains seasick and cabin-bound, Elizabeth wanders the dispatch, alternately steering clear of and seeking out Arthur. Struggling to avoid memories of these fractured former, she must face the deception they practiced even while she accepts the tranquility they brought to the grief-stricken who desired their services. Intimately tackled to "you," the listener, The Blue Booklet is both a family portrait of two methodical people and a meditation on "how love is a private language, a couple of codes, to which the outdoors world ought not say that impediment" (Telegraph). Irresistibly written, by changes comically wry and stunningly lyrical, with "some of the most unashamedly erotic writing since Nicholson Baker first contemplated a cell phone recipient" (New Statesman), the e book slowly, intentionally, and devastatingly unveils itself to the listener. The heartbreaking stakes are in the end nothing less than truth and fiction, life and fatality.
