Parallel Lives | Iain Pears

#ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial:https://mediabooks.space/il-3909/Title: Parallel Lives Author: Iain Pears Narrator: Richard Attlee Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins Release date: 08-05-25 Ratings: 4.0 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Cultural & Regional Publisher's Summary: Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell met by chance in a Venetian restaurant in September 1962. Prior to this fateful meal, Larissa escaped the siege of Leningrad and lived in the Urals, surrounded by Spanish revolutionaries. She became Keeper of Italian Drawings at the Hermitage and attended the 1962 Venice Biennale, where she stole (“I didn’t steal it. I liberated it”) a Matisse painting. Francis was a historian who never felt safe in England, his own country, and had abandoned hope of falling in love or finding anyone who could love him.