The Lola Quartet, Emily St. John Mandel
The Lola Quartet, Emily St. John Mandel
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The Lola Quartet

Author: Emily St. John Mandel

Narrator: Sarah Scott

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2017

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—Gavin Sasaki was a promising young journalist in New York City until the day he was fired for plagiarism.

The last thing he wants is to sell foreclosed real estate for his sister Eilo’s company in their Florida hometown, but he’s in no position to refuse her job offer. Plus, there’s another reason to go home: Eilo recently met a ten-year-old girl who looks very much like Gavin and has the same last name as his high-school girlfriend, Anna, who left town abruptly after graduation.

Determined to find out if this little girl might be his daughter, Gavin sets off to track down Anna, starting with the three friends they shared back when he was part of a jazz group called “The Lola Quartet.” As Gavin pieces together their stories, he learns that Anna has been on the run for good reason, and soon his investigation into her sudden disappearance all those years ago takes a seriously dangerous turn.

Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

About Emily St. John Mandel

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL is the author of six novels, most recently Sea of Tranquility. The Glass Hotel was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Station Eleven was a finalist for a National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and CBC Canada Reads. It also won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award and the Morning News Tournament of Books. Translated into thirty-four languages, Station Eleven was made into an acclaimed limited TV series. Mandel lives in New York and Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew

Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel hasn’t yet published many books – four, in fact – but I’m methodically making my way through them. I stumbled across the superb Station Eleven courtesy of some good reviews I’d seen on Goodreads and I then picked up Last Night in Montreal which I also loved. I......more

Goodreads review by Angela M is taking a break.

I loved Station Eleven so I was interested in trying one of Emily St. John Mandel's earlier books. While these are two very different stories, I was not disappointed. This book also illustrates the author's talent in weaving a story moving back and forth in time. I really like this mechanism becaus......more

Goodreads review by Snotchocheez

Only slightly less enthralling than her post-apocalyptic Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet is a consistently engaging, refreshingly original novel that is so utterly underrated by my fellow GR readers (3.34? Really?) it blows my mind. Ms. Mandel hooked me from the start: Young......more

Goodreads review by Blair

The Lola Quartet is one of Emily St. John Mandel’s three pre-Station Eleven novels, only made available in the UK after the success of the aforementioned book. It’s about four friends who play music together as teenagers, and what becomes of them ten years later. Gavin – the main character, as f......more

Quotes

“[An] ingeniously constructed literary thriller.”— Minneapolis Star Tribune 
 
 “[An] elegant, hypnotic novel. . . . An elegy for lost—and perhaps only imagined—innocence.” —The Washington Post
 
“Compelling. . . . Perhaps all novelists can be said to wrestle with morality; Mandel seems to wrestle with it at greater length and in greater depth than most. . . . First-rate fiction.” —Dallas Morning News
 
“A novel noir that wears its influences proudly on the beige sleeve of its trench coat…. Delightful.” —Paste

“Trumpets [Mandel’s] talents: her charismatic verbal grace and acuity, the rich atmosphere she creates.” —The Boston Globe
 
“Emily St. John Mandel is astonishing.” —Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers
 
“[Mandel] is a stunningly beautiful writer whose complex, flawed, and well-drawn characters linger with you.” —Sarah McCarry, Tor.com
 
“Fascinating.” —Booklist
 
“Riveting. . . . Evocative, intriguing, and complex, this novel is as smooth as the underbelly of a deadly, furtive reptile.” —Library Journal (starred review)
 
“A rewarding read.”  —Foreword magazine
 
“Result[s] in both sophistication and suspense.” —Publishers Weekly
 
“[Mandel’s] writing is pure elegance.” —Patrick DeWitt, author of Sisters Brothers

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