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    Audiobook8 hours

    Cairo

    Written by Chris Womersley

    Narrated by Damien Warren-Smith

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    About this audiobook

    At 18, Tom escapes ordinariness in small town Australia for Melbourne and a flat in a strange block named Cairo. There he meets the magnetic Max Cheever, and is drawn into his circle of bohemian artists and dreamers. But soon Tom is ensnared in a plot to steal a million dollar Picasso masterpiece. Among undependable forgers and violent art dealers, Tom trusts only in Max - even as he falls hopelessly in love with his beautiful wife...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateApr 3, 2014
    ISBN9781471262708
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    Cairo
    Author

    Chris Womersley

    Chris Womersley’s debut novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. His second novel, Bereft, won the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction and the Indie Award for Fiction; was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Age Book of the Year, the Australian Society of Literature Gold Medal and the UK’s Gold Dagger award; and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Bereft and The Low Road have been translated into a number of languages. Chris’s short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Best Australian Stories 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012, Griffith REVIEW, Wet Ink and Meanjin; and one of his stories was shortlisted for the BBC International Short Story Award in 2012. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and son. Contact him at www.chriswomersley.com.

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    • 5/5
      Brilliant. Soo easy to listen to. Fascinating and beautiful. A love letter to Melbourne’s mid eighties.
    • 3/5
      Entertaining, with the special bonus that comes from reading something set in neighbourhoods you know well. The characters are fairly generic - the country kid outcast who falls in with an older, bohemian (and essentially untrustworthy) gang, The older, beautiful (and unavailable) woman, the heroin using artists etc etc. It's a thrilling story (based on real events), nicely told, but it's not hugely memorable.
    • 4/5
      I found this book very enjoyable, with neat throwbacks to the 1980s Melbourne which I knew and loved. The narrator is convincing, and his coming of age story among a bohemian set of art thieves is a pleasure to read. A couple of times, I was slightly confused about the genre (worrying whether the dog being shot, the art fraud, the absent family, the heroin, the murder!!! meant we were heading into gravely serious territory), but overall, the story is a bit Agatha Christie or Midsomer Murders in that no character that you care about gets killed (though I wasn't happy with the dog being injured in such a story!).
      I got over these bumps as lightly as I could, and then enjoyed the book more and more as it segued in to a close, where many of my misconceptions were tidied up. I think most readers will thoroughly enjoy this book.