The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild, John Ironmonger
The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild, John Ironmonger
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The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild

Author: John Ironmonger

Narrator: Rachel Atkins

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2020


Synopsis

REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES...
On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would meet a cruel, untimely death.

Years later, strange dreams plague Katya Nemcová, a teenager burdened with a rare and curious gift. Memories come to Katya in her dreams - images and stories from a past that isn't her own. Are these ghosts real? And what of the memory she seems to have of Heloise's treasures, two centuries old?

A novel that spans the history of Europe - from revolutionary France to the world wars, the Prague Spring, post Brexit Britain, and beyond - this is the irresistible, adventurous and affectionate story of a quite extraordinary woman, her exceptionally talented ancestors, and the curious memories they share.

About John Ironmonger

John Ironmonger was born and grew up in East Africa. He has a doctorate in zoology, and was once an expert on freshwater leeches. He is the author of The Good Zoo Guide and the novels The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder (shortlisted for the 2012 Costa First Novel Prize and the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize), The Coincidence Authority and The Whale at the End of the World (an international bestseller). He has also been part of a world record team for speed reading Shakespeare, has driven across the Sahara in a £100 banger, and once met Jared Diamond in a forest in the middle of Sumatra.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ief on October 10, 2021

Actie, avontuur, spectaculaire ontsnappingen, verborgen schatten. 'De vele levens van Heloise Starchild' is een jongensboek. Zou je denken. Maar dat is het niet. Het was me tijdens het lezen niet eens zo erg opgevallen - pas nu dringt het tot me door: het is in de eerste plaats een boek over sterke vr......more

Goodreads review by Karrah on January 10, 2022

The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild is honestly one of the most beautiful books I have read in a while. This book takes you on such a journey and paints the most intricate mental images - some beautiful, some not so, but all of them an adventure! It is a book full of feelings. The story makes you dw......more

Goodreads review by Iris on June 19, 2023

Fijn geschreven, heerlijk bedacht! Tijdreizen maar dan anders. Hoe een matriarchale lijn zicht generaties lang opdringt aan elke volgende dochter, en waarom? Aanrader!......more

Goodreads review by Alice on August 01, 2020

The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild mainly tells the story of three women fighting their circumstances in three different times and places: Marianne Muse, an orphan raised by nuns in late eighteenth/early nineteenth century France who seeks revenge for the rape, torture and beheading of her aristocr......more

Goodreads review by Samantha Scherps on November 16, 2021

Ik heb een nieuwe favoriet gevonden terwijl ik dit boek las! Het originele concept dat John Ironmonger bedacht voor De vele levens van Heloise Starchild, is zeer goed uitgewerkt doorheen het hele verhaal. Je volgt het leven van verschillende vrouwen die erg hard verschillen van elkaar. Ze wonen in v......more