{"product_id":"double-room-1","title":"Double Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen his life falls apart after a horrific tragedy, a composer returns to his native France, where he creates an AI machine with his dead wife’s voice, with unexpected, devastating consequences…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Mesmerising … Stan melds technology with the human spirit, defying the cruel randomness of his wife’s death while allowing part of her to continue to exist and interact with him … a brooding, curious novel’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A book that will haunt you with what is said and what is left unsaid … simply brilliant’ \u003cb\u003eJill Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Every page contains a mystery, a twist, a doubt. We don’t follow the characters, we travel alongside them, turning the pages in an ever-increasing frenzy’ \u003cb\u003eJean-Paul Delfino\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Sénès’s impressive and suspenseful literary debut novel will tempt most to read it in just one sitting’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTARRED review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e–––\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon, late 1990s.\u003c\/b\u003e Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e. The play will never be staged, but Stan meets Liv, the love of his life, and their harmonious duo soon becomes a trio with the birth of their beloved daughter, Lisa. Stan’s world is filled with vibrant colour and melodic music, and under his wife and daughter’s gaze, his piano comes to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eParis, today.\u003c\/b\u003e After Liv’s fatal accident, Stan returns to France surrounded by darkness, no longer able to compose, and living in the Rabbit Hole, a home left to him by an aunt. He shares his life with Babette, a lifeguard and mother of a boy of Lisa’s age, and Laïvely, an AI machine of his own invention endowed with Liv’s voice, that he spent entire nights building after her death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Stan remains haunted by his past. As the silence gradually gives way to noises, whistles and sighs – sometimes even bursts of laughter – and Laïvely seems to take on a life of its own, memories and reality fade and blur…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Stan’s new family implodes…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers who love Laura Kasischke, David Nicholls and Kazuo Ishiguro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–––––\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This spellbinding novel takes readers on a multi-sensory journey through love and loss, grief, frustration and lust … One of my favourite reads of the year’ \u003cb\u003eGill Paul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Told in an achingly beautiful voice, \u003ci\u003eDouble Room\u003c\/i\u003e drew me into a world full of mystery, music and bittersweet love. Every sentence is poetic, every page is captivating. I could picture, taste and smell every scene…’ \u003cb\u003eKatie Allen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A beautiful, heartfelt and sensual story, written with style and grace’ \u003cb\u003eDoug Johnstone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A masterful exploration of vulnerability, shifting memory and loss. Anne Sénès writes with sharp yet tender insight. Her words contain a subtle urgency that keep the pages turning’ \u003cb\u003eJill Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Enchanting, beautiful, poetic … evokes the most indescribable feelings’ \u003cb\u003eBabelio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Spellbinding, disconcerting and hypnotic … an amalgamation of Shakespearean tragedy, the spirit of Lewis Carroll and the vivid descriptions of \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e’ \u003cb\u003eAurélie Dye-Pellisson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Profound and acutely moving … a rich, extraordinary sensory experience that brings to mind the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro’ \u003cb\u003eReader Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat readers are saying:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A mesmerising, unsettling story – I finished it breathless!’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Beautiful and strange in equal measure, unlike anything I’ve read’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Heartbreaking, lyrical, haunting … I’ll be thinking about this for weeks’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Captures grief and longing with devastating precision’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Spine-tingling and deeply human – a masterpiece of mood and memory’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I read it in two nights, unable to look away’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orenda Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54409913598296,"sku":"9781916788565","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781916788565.jpg?v=1778909463","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/double-room-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}