Blue Hours: A Novel

Published in 20+ languages, Daphne Kalotay is the author of five books concerning the arts, war, and cultural heritage. Her work includes the award-winning novels Russian Winter, Sight Reading, and Blue Hours, and two story collections: Calamity and Other Stories and, most recently, The Archivists, winner of the Grace Paley Prize and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, among others. Daphne lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she is a Special Program Instructor in the Masters in Creative Writing & Literature Program at Harvard University's Department of Continuing Education.

Julia Whelan is an author, screenwriter, lifelong actor, and acclaimed audiobook narrator of over 700 titles.She is, most recently, the recipient of Spotify's Narrator of the Year Award (the most listened-to narrator globally), the first-ever Gracie Award for Best Fiction Narrator (presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation), the SOVAS (Society of Voice Arts and Sciences) Lifetime Achievement Award, and winner of the Audie Award for Best Fiction Narrator of 2025. She also captured both the winner and runner-up slots in the inaugural audiobook category of the Goodreads Choice Awards.Her latest books — the Audie nominated duet romance, Casanova LLC (coming in print, Spring 2027), and the annotated Victorian poetry anthology The Poetry Of My Oxford Year — debuted exclusively on Audiobrary. jmwhelan.com