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Brazzaville Beach

Written by: William Boyd
Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
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Publisher's Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband, John, and his mathematical obsessions in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps.

But the more Hope studies Mallabar, the more she comes to believe that something isn't right. That behind Mallabar and his obsessive work there lies another more sinister truth: one that might also help explain Hope's reasons for leaving England....

©1990 William Boyd (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Critic Reviews

"A brilliant storyteller...a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights." (Financial Times)

"A most extraordinary parable about mankind. Quite unlike anything else I have read." (Sunday Express)

"Brilliant, daring. A gripping and compulsive story." (Herald)

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