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  • Location: London, Paris

Double Room

Double Room

Why a Booktrail?

1990s: A composer creates an AI machine with his dead wife’s voice, with unexpected, devastating consequences…

  • ISBN: 978-1916788565
  • Translator: Alice Banks
  • Genre: Fiction, Translated Fictioin

What you need to know before your trail

Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play will never be staged, but Stan meets Liv, the love of his life, and their harmonious duo soon becomes a trio with the birth of their beloved daughter, Lisa. Stan’s world is filled with vibrant colour and melodic music, and under his wife and daughter’s gaze, his piano comes to life.

Paris, today. After Liv’s accident, Stan returns to France surrounded by darkness, no longer able to compose, and living in the Burrow, a home left to him by an aunt. He shares his life with Babette, a lifeguard and mother of a boy of Lisa’s age, and Laïvely, an AI machine of his own invention endowed with Liv’s voice, which he spent entire nights building after her death…

But Stan remains haunted by his past. As the silence gradually gives way to noises, sometimes even a burst of laughter, and Laïvely seems to take on a life of its own, memories and reality fade and blur … and Stan’s new family implodes…

Travel Guide

London 

The two cities in the novel are key locations for all manner of memories and stories. There is a keen musical link as one of the characters is a composer. In London, we visit theatreland and see where the Picture of Dorian Gray might be held. The West End is awash with theatres and there’s a nice mention of The Lion King!

Paris

Nice mentions of the Butte Chaumont area where there is talk of picnics ( Personal guarantee this is a very nice spot for one!) Saint Germain is a nice place to walk around. The famous Les Deux Magots
cafe is here!

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Double Room

Destination/location: London, Paris    Author/guide:  Anne Sénès   Departure Time: 1990s

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