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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
- Author
- Max Porter
- Narrator
- Russell Tovey
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 18 May 2026
- Run Time
- 1 hour 52 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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A
SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
** NEWLY RECORDED AUDIO EDITION **
Winner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and
the Sunday
Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award
and shortlisted for the
Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
'Amazing and unforgettable.'
THE TIMES
'Dazzlingly good.' ROBERT MACFARLANE
'Unlike anything I've read before.'
GUARDIAN
'Captivating, poetic, and surprising.' CILLIAN MURPHY
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.
In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him.
This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and emotional truth, marks the arrival of a thrilling and significant new talent.
'Actor Russell Tovey's narration crackles with compassion and menace in this magical story of a widower and his young sons in mourning'
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Max Porter
- Narrator
- Russell Tovey
- Duration
- 1 hour 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9780571404780
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ** NEWLY RECORDED AUDIO EDITION ** Winner of the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. 'Amazing and unforgettable.' THE TIMES 'Dazzlingly good.' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'Unlike anything I've read before.' GUARDIAN 'Captivating, poetic, and surprising.' CILLIAN MURPHY In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. This extraordinary debut, full of unexpected humour and emotional truth, marks the arrival of a thrilling and significant new talent. 'Actor Russell Tovey's narration crackles with compassion and menace in this magical story of a widower and his young sons in mourning' Guardian
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