Siracusa Audiobook

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• “[A] suspenseful, thoroughly delicious tale.”

  — People

• “An irresistible novel for fans of psychological thrillers or those considering vacationing with former lovers and spouses (often one and the same)."

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• "[Ephron] excels at [depicting] characters’ unintended comedy, their emotional warfare and witty observations of travel and consumption….with a deft, stinging touch. They are a wise reminder that the hungers driving these people are a ravenous, even violent, business.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “This stylishly written and razor-sharp novel of manners is perfect for audio since the achievement and pleasure of the book comes from the crossruff among four different voices as each tells his or her version of what happened in Siracusa…Each adult is voiced by a different narrator, and all four hit their marks with wonderful crispness and understanding of the characters they play. An absolutely delicious listen. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

  — AudioFile

• “A seductive and edgy dissection of two imploding marriages—and an unhinged mother-daughter alliance…Each of these toxic relationships puts the characters on course to careen headlong into a dark place of deceit and rage in Ephron’s brilliant takedown of marital and familial pretense.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Ephron expertly builds the layers of suspense as conflict and deception push these fractured families toward a painful epiphany.”

  — BookPage

• “A master of precise and keen character development, a virtuoso of pacing and surprise, a wizard at skewering convention and expectation, Ephron offers a bewitching take on relationships—marital, parental, casual, and serious—in this read-in-one-sitting, escapist escapade with a message.”

  — Booklist

• [Ephron] excels at [depicting] characters’ unintended comedy, their emotional warfare and witty observations of travel and consumption....with a deft, stinging touch. They are a wise reminder that the hungers driving these people are a ravenous, even violent, business.

  — The New York Times Book Review

• An irresistible novel for fans of psychological thrillers, or those considering vacationing with former lovers and spouses (often one and the same).

  — Oprah Magazine

• Sophisticated, elegantly written, delightfully cynical…Ephron’s novel has the feel of a classic.

  — Patrick Anderson, Washington Post   

• [A] suspenseful, thoroughly delicious tale. You can almost taste the gelato.

  — People Magazine

• Siracusa starts innocuously enough, as an ironic travelogue about American sophisticates abroad...The situation begins to resemble a Ford Madox Ford novel, with each narrator recounting and interpreting the same encounters from vastly differing perspectives…As the clues pile up, the coming storm is expertly foreshadowed—but when it arrives, it's utterly surprising.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• A seductive and edgy dissection of two imploding marriages—and an unhinged mother-daughter alliance . . . Each of these toxic relationships puts the characters on course to careen headlong into a dark place of deceit and rage in Ephron’s brilliant takedown of marital and familial pretense.

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• A master of precise and keen character development, a virtuoso of pacing and surprise, a wizard at skewering convention and expectation, Ephron offers a bewitching take on relationships—marital, parental, casual, and serious—in this read-in-one-sitting, escapist escapade with a message.

  — Booklist

• The word ‘unputdownable’ is somewhat overused when describing a good book—but really, I just could not put this book down. Delia Ephron’s Siracusa is a dark tale with incredibly well-drawn characters. It reveals the slights and secrets that can bring about chaos among friends and within families, and adds more than a spoonful of evil into the bargain. I stayed up well past my bedtime to finish.

  — Jacqueline Winspear, author of the Maisie Dobbs novels

• Delia Ephron’s Siracusa is a stunning portrait of two marriages coming unraveled during the stress of travel abroad. Insightful and engaging. A must-read!

  — Sue Grafton, author of X

• Siracusa is an unusually crackling, tricky journey into the distant land of other people’s marriages: their secrets, paradoxes, weaknesses, and plea­sures. Delia Ephron writes like a warm-blooded Patricia Highsmith, her sto­ry’s treachery matched by a deep and easy feel for the various human, imperfect ways that people find themselves bound together, and sometimes painstakingly unbind themselves. An absorbing, tense, and original novel.

  — Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings

• Siracusa is dazzling. Here is Delia Ephron with a stunning noir tale of mar­riage and morality, as two couples tangled in secret longings and betrayals travel through Italy, along with a gimlet-eyed ten-year-old daughter who could have been created by Henry James. Beware. You will be up all night to finish. I was.

  — Marie Brenner, author of Apples and Oranges