Listening Still
- Author Anne Griffin
- Narrator Nicola Coughlan
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Run Time 10 hours and 5 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
From the bestselling author of When All is Said comes a delicious new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead - a talent which is both a gift and a curse.
Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years ago: to stay or leave for a new life in London with her charismatic teenage sweetheart.
So when Jeanie's parents unexpectedly announce their plan to retire, she is jolted out of her limbo. In this captivating successor to her bestselling debut, Anne Griffin portrays a young woman who is torn between duty, a comfortable marriage and a role she both loves and hates and her last chance to break free, unaware she has not been alone in softening the truth for a long while.
(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Critics Review
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A wonderfully unexpected tale of love, death and everything in between
Graham Norton, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Keeper and Home Stretch -
Stunning – a book that surpasses all expectations and thoroughly cements Anne Griffin’s place on the short but venerable list of writers whose work is always a must-read. A delicately-hewn delight from first sentence to last
Billy Callaghan, Irish bestselling author of Life Sentences -
Absorbing and heartwarming . . . There are deep thoughts sown beneath the light and charming surfaces of Griffin’s novels. Her books are fable-like, deep musings on life, mortality, and what makes a life worth living, philosophy for everyday readers, cleverly disguised as a good old-fashioned story
Irish Times -
Carries many of the winsome Irish signature traits we expect of Griffin
Irish Sunday Times -
Ireland’s long line of magical storytellers is further enriched by Anne Griffin, who follows her poignant debut When All is Said with another outstanding read . . . Griffin explores the tension between instinct and duty in a powerful, moving novel, deftly weaving the strands of the story to create a masterpiece that lingers long in the memory
Sunday Express -
The setting and its supernatural undertow allow Griffin’s humour to sparkle . . . there is a lesson in this quirky account of duty shirked and freedom tasted
Irish Independent
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