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  • Published: 19 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473578692
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 10 hr 6 min
  • Narrators: Elliot Cowan, Deborah McBride, Claudia Jessie
  • RRP: $24.99

Coming Up for Air

A remarkable true story richly reimagined





For fans of The Hours & based on true events, a rich, powerful story of a toy-maker, a journalist & the girl whose life - and death - links them across oceans & centuries.

Brought to you by Penguin.

Three extraordinary lives intertwine across oceans and time.

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Canada where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live.

Taking inspiration from a remarkable true story, Coming Up for Air is a bold, richly imagined novel about the transcendent power of storytelling and the immeasurable impact of every human life.

© Sarah Leipciger 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

  • Published: 19 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473578692
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 10 hr 6 min
  • Narrators: Elliot Cowan, Deborah McBride, Claudia Jessie
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Sarah Leipciger

Born and raised in Canada, Sarah Leipciger lives in London with her three children, and teaches creative writing to prisoners. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Asham Award, the Fish Prize and the Bridport Prize. Her first novel, the critically acclaimed THE MOUNTAIN CAN WAIT, was published in 2015. COMING UP FOR AIR is her second novel.

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