Since the World Is Ending

Name: Since the World Is Ending
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Indyana Schneider
ISBN: 9781398541313

Author: Indyana Schneider

Narrator: Olivia Mace

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Published: 07/17/2025

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Lgbtq+, Romance, Erotica, World Literature, Friendship, City Life, Cultural Fiction, Jewish Fiction, Feminist, Family Life

Synopsis

Maya is living her dream in Vienna. First violinist with the prestigious Habsburg Philharmonic, her days are filled with music, her nights with wild parties and passionate, no-strings-attached sex with her colleague, star cellist Lucia Rizzo.

But when Josh - the ex-love of Maya's life - unexpectedly shows up at her door, the perfect world she's built begins to unravel.

Set over a blisteringly hot weekend in a city where ghosts lurk in every alleyway, Since the World is Ending explores the sacrifices we make and the risks we take when we pour life into our art.

A novel about music, consequence, desire and the importance of love and art in a world on fire by a daring and uniquely compelling young novelist.

About Indyana Schneider

Indyana Schneider is an international opera singer and novelist from Sydney, Australia. She studied Music at Oxford University and Opera at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover, completing her training at the prestigious International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera. Indyana now performs full-time across the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and Australia. Between her music studies, Indyana wrote her debut novel, 28 Questions, on the tube while working in development in London's third sector. Her second novel, Since the World is Ending, was drafted in countless airports, train stations, and friends' living rooms as her singing career took her around the world. When not writing or performing, she is a keen and clumsy salsa dancer, a messy cook and a short-distance runner.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kobe on July 15, 2025

wow!! was taken slightly by surprise by how much i enjoyed this book. so compellingly written with some beautiful descriptions and so much emotion. 4 stars......more

Goodreads review by Kerry on July 17, 2025

4.5 stars. I found this impossible to put down once I had started it, it is so intense and brings you into the obsessive world of professional musicians with such force that I couldn't look away, not even for a beat. The enveloping heat and sensory-overload beauty of Vienna claw at you constantly. I......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on July 01, 2025

She’s done it again!!!!......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor on January 27, 2025

This book is beautiful in every sense. A consideration of love in all its forms (lost and otherwise), set over a single weekend in Vienna, this is a must-read if you love: (1) Transporting, precise and lose-yourself-in-it descriptions of music and what it means to be a musician and an artist. This wa......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on July 22, 2025

Really - why can't we give half stars here, because this was a 4.5 read for me. Set against the backdrop of classical Vienna, and not heavily plot driven, we follow Maya as she navigates new and past loves. When her ex turns up unexpectedly, she must reconcile the life she dreams of against the promi......more