The Night Stages, Jane Urquhart
The Night Stages, Jane Urquhart
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The Night Stages

Author: Jane Urquhart

Narrator: Charlotte Anne Dore

Unabridged: 11 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/28/2015


Synopsis

After a tragic accident leaves Tamara alone on the most westerly tip of Ireland, she begins an affair with a charismatic meteorologist named Niall. At first her romance is filled with passionate secrecy, but when Niall's younger brother, Kieran, disappears after a bicycle race, Niall, unable to shake the idea that he may be to blame, slowly falls into despondency. Distraught and abandoned after their decade-long relationship, Tamara decides she has no option but to leave.

Tamara makes her way from Ireland to New York. During a layover in Gander, Newfoundland, a fog moves in, grounding her plane and stranding her in front of the airport's mural. As she gazes at the nutcracker-like children, missile-shaped birds, and fruit blossoms, she revisits the circumstances that brought her to Ireland and the family entanglement that has forced her into exile.

About Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart is the author of The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, A Map of Glass, and Sanctuary Line, all of which have been published internationally. She is also the author of Storm Glass (stories), and three books of poetry. A nationally bestselling author, Urquhart has received numerous awards and honors, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Trillium Award, the Habourfront Festival Prize, and Le prix du meilleur livre etranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roger on August 26, 2017

Imagine picking this up in a bookstore, as if from an unknown author, and opening a page at random: "This is what Keiran could not see as the road under his wheels rose through the haze toward the top of the headland. He could not see Ballinskelligs Bay, or Horse Island curving like a smile in its c......more

Goodreads review by Jill on April 27, 2015

While still under the spell of my recent Ring of Kerry vacation, with its lakes and mountains, brilliant yellow firs and emerald fields, seaside villages and old monasteries dancing in my brain, I immersed myself in The Night Stages…frankly, hoping to prolong the magic of my trip. And indeed, Jane Ur......more

Goodreads review by Cher on January 10, 2019

There was no beginning nor no end with this book....nor for characters or for reader. Descriptions of countryside were lovely. One or two of the characters were somewhat described but their storylines were weak and kept bouncing around. Every time I thought something might happen more beautiful descr......more