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The Blue Book by Alison Louise Kennedy is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Blue Book about?

<p>When ex-lovers meet on a cruise ship, secrets and lies emerge in this heartbreaking story by a modern master of the novel whom Richard Ford has called “a profound writer.”</p> <p>From one of the U.K.’s most dazzling authors comes a brutal and funny novel about a pair of fraudulent psychic mediums that is itself an elaborate con game between fact and fiction, life and death.</p> <p>Beth boards an ocean liner with Derek, her almost-fiancé, and encounters her past in the form of Arthur, a not-quite-ex lover. The sea voyage churns up fraught memories of the shady life she and Arthur led, acting as spiritual mediums to fleece the vulnerable. <i>The Blue Book</i> is a haunting meditation (per the <i>Telegraph</i>) about “how love is a private language, a set of codes, to which the outside world ought not admit impediment; about the rightness of doing wrong by false love when true love is waiting down the companionway.” Mysterious, virtuosic, and ultimately heartbreaking, <i>The Blue Book</i> is A. L. Kennedy at the height of her powers.</p>

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Alison Louise Kennedy
Publisher
Boston: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780544027701
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
Rating
2.9 / 5 (48 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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