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The Immortalists

The Immortalists

Hardback Published on: 08/03/2018
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The Immortalists
Can you avoid your fate and destiny?
If you could know exactly when you are going to die, would you try to change your fate or accept it? This was the question four Gold siblings had all their... READ MORE
Emine at Bromley
The Immortalists
Moving, poetic and truly fabulous.
I had the very great pleasure of finishing ‘The Immortalists’ by Chloe Benjamin last night, it’s been getting some excellent press and reviews round and ab... READ MORE
Penelope Bullock at Lancaster
The Immortalists
A unique premise.
This is certainly a unique premise on which to base a book. The four Gold children hear about a woman who can predict the day you die so being kids and bor... READ MORE
Sally Boocock
The Immortalists
A beautiful ode to siblings
New York, 1969. The Gold siblings discover there is a traveling psychic in town, claiming to be able to tell you the date of your death. Gripped by the fea... READ MORE
Lily W

Synopsis

It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes.

Over the years that follow, the siblings must choose how to live with the prophecies the fortune-teller gave them that day. Will they accept, ignore, cheat or defy them?

Golden-boy Simon escapes to San Francisco, searching for love; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician; eldest son Daniel tries to control fate as an army doctor after 9/11; and bookish Varya looks to science for the answers she craves.

A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists is a story about how we live, how we die, and what we do with the time we have.

'Such is her dazzling sureness of touch that you wonder if here is a writer who is truly capable of anything' - The Daily Mail

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 9781472244987
  • Number of pages: 416
  • Dimensions: 238 x 160 x 42 mm
  • Weight: 680g

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The Immortalists
The choices we make...
3.5* I had heard a lot about this book and after reading can best describe it as unusual to say the least. The question is would you want to know the day ... READ MORE
Helena
The Immortalists
Different and Well Written
This was a book that I was really keen to read, and I think it did live up to my expectations, although differently to how I had anticipated. I think I was... READ MORE
Anna
The Immortalists
A question of destiny V chaos.
An exploration into the destiny argument told through the lives of four children. More questions raised by this book than answered. Is a little knowledge a... READ MORE
Maria Roberts
The Immortalists
must read
absolutely adored this book.
Danielle Quinn
The Immortalists
Complex, believable and thought-provoking
Set around four siblings who as children visit a fortune teller, she discloses to each child individually the date they will die. The novel is split into f... READ MORE
aGirlWithherHeadStuckinaBook
The Immortalists
Disappointing
Interesting idea but I felt the story never lived up to the premise. I found the part about Daniel the most disappointing as I never found him a believable... READ MORE
jean
The Immortalists
Novel set in NYC and SAN FRANCISCO
Chloe Benjamin’s substantial second novel poses the somewhat disturbing question – How would we live if we knew the date of our death? The opening chapter ... READ MORE
TripFiction
The Immortalists
Mesmerising character driven story
Imagine for a moment that you were told the exact date that you were going to die? If you believed what you had just been told, how would that change you a... READ MORE
John Fish