The Tower - Thea Lenarduzzi

Category: Art, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Essays Fairy Tale Fitzcarraldo Editions Folklore Memoir Womens

Written by Thea Lenarduzzi
Read by Thea Lenarduzzi
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
Release date: 10-09-25

Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof – a folly, it was said. According to locals, a young woman named Annie who fell ill was confined to the tower by her father for three years and died there, alone.

Fascinated by Annie’s story, Thea Lenarduzzi attempts to piece the past together in a formidable act of imagination, which, tugging at the strings of the how, why and who of stories, begins to unravel the very idea of storytelling itself. Veering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore, The Tower is an extraordinary book about power, abuse and why we don’t always tell the story we set out to tell.
©2025 Thea Lenarduzzi (P)2025 Fitzcarraldo Editions