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  • The Museum of Broken Promises

  • By: Elizabeth Buchan
  • Narrated by: Joan Walker
  • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Museum of Broken Promises

By: Elizabeth Buchan
Narrated by: Joan Walker
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Publisher's Summary

Paris, today. The Museum of Broken Promises is a place of wonder and sadness, hope and loss. Every object in the museum has been donated – a cake tin, a wedding veil, a baby's shoe. And each represent a moment of grief or terrible betrayal. The museum is a place where people come to speak to the ghosts of the past and, sometimes, to lay them to rest. Laure, the owner and curator, has also hidden artefacts from her own painful youth amongst the objects on display. Prague, 1985. Recovering from the sudden death of her father, Laure flees to Prague. But life behind the Iron Curtain is a complex thing: drab and grey yet charged with danger. Laure cannot begin to comprehend the dark, political currents that run beneath the surface of this communist city. Until, that is, she meets a young dissident musician. Her love for him will have terrible and unforeseen consequences. It is only years later, having created the museum, that Laure can finally face up to her past and celebrate the passionate love which has directed her life.
©2019 Elizabeth Buchan (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing
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Critic Reviews

'I ADORE cold-war novels and I live for love stories – The Museum of Broken Promises is a perfect combination of both. It's a gem of a book ... beautiful, elegant.' (Marian Keyes, international bestselling author)
'Intricately plotted and beautifully written, the characters and the setting stay with you and leave you yearning for Paris.' (Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Summer at Sea)
'I've long considered Elizabeth Buchan to be one of our greatest living novelists, and this brilliant novel confirms it. A masterly writer at the very top of her game.' (Peter James, author of the Roy Grace series)
'So beautifully steeped in the spirit of a place, Two Women in Rome completely transported me to the city. Art, passion, and mystery - expertly layered, this is a rich and gorgeous book.' (Eve Chase)

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Simply could not finish this book

Despite the extraordinary talent of narator, I simply couldn't finish this book. I've read a houndreds of all different kinds of books but this is the one of very few that I couldn't finish. Chapter five and absolutley nothing was happening! Story did not even begin to unfold. I really wanted to like this book as narrator's voice is beautiful but I regret wasting my time on it.

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