When the World Was Steady

Name: When the World Was Steady
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Claire Messud
ISBN: 9781681686684

Author: Claire Messud

Narrator: Shiromi Arserio

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 08/29/2017

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women

Synopsis

Life isn't all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy's marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney to "find herself" on the island of Bali—only to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her prim and pious sister, Virginia, meanwhile, has never wandered far outside of London. Struggling to find meaning, she follows her aging mother's advice to vacation on the Isle of Skye. On these two islands halfway around the world, the middle-aged sisters confront the costs of self-knowledge and their destinies with unexpected consequences.

About Claire Messud

Claire Messud is an award-winning novelist and a professor in the Department of English at Harvard University. Her books include The Emperor's Children, The Woman Upstairs, and The Last Life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathon

When the World was Steady was Claire Messud's first novel. I had the opportunity to interview Messud at Writers ' Week during the 2000 Adelaide Festival of the Arts. She was out promoting her second novel, The Last Life. I didn't get a copy until the day before the interview, so I ploughed through a......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

I sometimes give up on a book in the first 50 pages, but I rarely give up 2/3 of the way through. I just couldn’t like or relate to any of the characters: not Emmy, not Virginia, not their mother. There wasn’t enough back story to help me understand any of them much less feel invested in what happen......more