In the Company of Angels, Nicole Mary Kelby
In the Company of Angels, Nicole Mary Kelby
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In the Company of Angels
A Novel

Author: Nicole Mary Kelby

Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 05/13/2014


Synopsis

Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative tale.Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, where she is cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claire's village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead—everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of the house and waits.Eventually she is rescued by two nuns working for the Resistance, who take her to their convent near a town where small miracles and strange visions are simply a part of life.

About Nicole Mary Kelby

Nicole Mary Kelby is the critically acclaimed author of White Truffles in Winter, In the Company of AngelsWhale Season, The Pink Suit, and the Florida Book Award winner A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts, among other works. She lives in Saint Paul.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.


Reviews

Goodreads review by L.K. on October 27, 2011

This is the review I wrote at Amazon in 2001: From the opening scene, I was hooked. Then, author N.M. Kelby pulled me through a slipstream between reality and greater reality, Here and There. In the Company of Angels is deceptively brief. But like poetry, each word, phrase and image is loaded with de......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on May 31, 2013

In a small French village near the border with Belgium, Marie Claire, a young Jewish girl, lives with her grandmother who cultivates hybrid irises and roses. It is World War II and a bomb shatters the world Marie Clare knows. Rescued by a pair of Catholic nuns she is taken across the border to their......more

Goodreads review by Betty-Lou on April 10, 2023

Miracles. Angels. Dreamlike. I must read it again. Re-read. Better the second around. 😊......more

Goodreads review by Lily on January 20, 2015

I hesitate to say how much I loved this book, and how deeply I was moved; I keep buying additional copies and I don't want them to run out. This book qualifies as "prose poetry". It is written in beautiful, evocative language, is rich in images and wonderful, but easily understood symbols and metaph......more

Goodreads review by Carol on February 17, 2013

This is a lovely, thought-provoking, and haunting story. I couldn't put it down, and found myself rereading passages that were brilliant and moving. I absolutely loved the scene with the Commander in the chocolate factory, the description of the truffles on the white paper lace--visually horrifying.......more


Quotes

“Kelby’s slim, grim fairy tale exerts a subtle pull…appropriately resonant and troubling.” Entertainment Weekly

“To read Kelby’s novel is, in its own words, to ‘fall into a dream, a flying dream.’ And to paraphrase and summarize such fine-spun fiction must inevitably be as inadequate as any attempt to retell your most amazing dream the morning after.” New York Times Book Review

“Luscious and heartrending…overflows with miracles.” Atlantic Monthly

“An understated meditation on spirituality in the midst of war’s devastation.” San Francisco Chronicle

“Kelby puts forth divine miracles…She has created a brave and beautiful book.” Baltimore Sun

“Kelby’s debut novel is a luminous, harrowing tale of wartime horrors and miracles…Striking, clear images give the novel a surreal cast…Such flashes of sensual detail are made even more poignant when contrasted with the atrocities of the war, and Kelby’s spare, elliptical prose effectively brings these moments to light, infusing the emotionally and spiritually loaded subject matter with an uncommon intimacy. Saints and Nazis may make strange bedfellows, but Kelby rises to the challenge with considerable command in a haunting debut that erodes the distinctions between waking and dreaming, faith and reason, life and death.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)