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    A Ladder to the Sky
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    A Ladder to the Sky

    Written by John Boyne

    Narrated by Nina Sosanya, Richard Cordery, Laurence Kennedy and Richard E. Grant

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    About this audiobook

    A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice your soul.

    If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career.

    A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful than him. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter entirely.

    Once Maurice has made his name, he sets off in pursuit of other people's stories. He doesn't care where he finds them—or to whom they belong—as long as they help him rise to the top.

    Stories will make him famous but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House UK Audio
    Release dateAug 9, 2018
    ISBN9781473563797
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    A Ladder to the Sky
    Author

    John Boyne

    John Boyne is the author of Crippen, The Thief of Time, Next of Kin, and the New York Times and internationally bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Boyne won two Irish Book Awards (the People’s Choice and the Children’s) for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which was made into a Miramax feature film, and his novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. Ireland's Sunday Business Post named him one of the forty people under forty in Ireland "likely to be the movers and shakers who will define the country's culture, politics, style and economics in 2005 and beyond." Crippen was nominated for the Sunday Independent Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives with his partner in Dublin.

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