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In the Company of Angels: A Novel Audiobook
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Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative tale.
Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, where she is cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claire's village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead—everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of the house and waits.
Eventually she is rescued by two nuns working for the Resistance, who take her to their convent near a town where small miracles and strange visions are simply a part of life.
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“Kelby’s debutnovel is a luminous, harrowing tale of wartime horrors and miracles…Striking,clear images give the novel a surreal cast…Such flashes of sensual detail aremade even more poignant when contrasted with the atrocities of the war, andKelby’s spare, elliptical prose effectively brings these moments to light,infusing the emotionally and spiritually loaded subject matter with an uncommonintimacy. Saints and Nazis may make strange bedfellows, but Kelby rises to thechallenge with considerable command in a haunting debut that erodes thedistinctions between waking and dreaming, faith and reason, life and death.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Kelby’s slim, grim fairy tale exerts a subtle pull…appropriately resonant and troubling.”
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“To read Kelby’s novel is, in its own words, to ‘fall into a dream, a flying dream.’ And to paraphrase and summarize such fine-spun fiction must inevitably be as inadequate as any attempt to retell your most amazing dream the morning after.”
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“Luscious and heartrending…overflows with miracles.”
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“An understated meditation on spirituality in the midst of war’s devastation.”
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“Kelby puts forth divine miracles…She has created a brave and beautiful book.”
— Baltimore Sun
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About Nicole Mary Kelby
Nicole Mary Kelby is the critically acclaimed author of White Truffles in Winter, In the Company of Angels, Whale Season, The Pink Suit, and the Florida Book Award winner A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts, among other works. She lives in Saint Paul.
About Gabrielle de Cuir
Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.