Time of Darkness

23 hrs. 31 min.

Language Russian

Author Barbara Erskine

Narrator Tatyana Antonova

Description

Lucy has recently become a widow: the death of her beloved husband, Larry, has left her alone with pain and emptiness, and now she is trying to find the strength to go on living. In search of a lifesaving occupation, Lucy takes on the biography of the wartime artist Evelyn Lucas—the very one whose self-portrait Larry had bought at an auction shortly before his death. With the help of Mike, Evelyn’s grandson and the heir to her cottage, Lucy immerses herself in Evi’s diaries, and from these entries an astonishing love story gradually takes shape—one that began in the dark years of the war and has endured through decades. But the further Lucy’s work progresses, the more clearly something inexplicable starts to intrude— and to get to the truth, Lucy will have to face the ghosts of the past…

Shadows, otherworldly signs, and echoes of long-ago love give Barbara Erskine’s realistic, piercing story a light breath of mysticism and genuine magic.