The Immortalists: If you knew the date of your death, how would you live?
Jan 2018 · Hachette UK
4.4star
25 reviews
Ebook
352
Pages
About this ebook
'Once I started reading The Immortalists, I resented every moment I had to spend away from the book until I'd finished' Stylist
'A compelling and utterly absorbing read with virtuoso storytelling on display' Sunday Express
It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes.
Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat and defy the 'knowledge' given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever.
Readers love The Immortalists:
'I read this book over three days and will remember it for a lifetime' *****
'This is a book that I never wanted to finish reading. I truly enjoyed each single word of it' *****
'A book of epic proportions. . . mystical and hugely memorable . . . I can't praise it highly enough. A must read!' *****
'Deserves all the noise around it' *****
'One of those books I wish I could un-read so I could read it all over again for the first time' *****
'A perfect book club read' *****
'A compelling and utterly absorbing read with virtuoso storytelling on display' Sunday Express
It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes.
Such prophecies could be dismissed as trickery and nonsense, yet the Golds bury theirs deep. Over the years that follow they attempt to ignore, embrace, cheat and defy the 'knowledge' given to them that day - but it will shape the course of their lives forever.
Readers love The Immortalists:
'I read this book over three days and will remember it for a lifetime' *****
'This is a book that I never wanted to finish reading. I truly enjoyed each single word of it' *****
'A book of epic proportions. . . mystical and hugely memorable . . . I can't praise it highly enough. A must read!' *****
'Deserves all the noise around it' *****
'One of those books I wish I could un-read so I could read it all over again for the first time' *****
'A perfect book club read' *****
Ratings and reviews
4.4
25 reviews
About the author
Chloe Benjamin is the author of The Anatomy of Dreams, which won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award and was longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. She lives with her husband in Wisconsin.
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