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Ripeness

By: Sarah Moss
Narrated by: Flora Montgomery
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It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a phone call which will seal this baby’s fate, and his mother’s.

Decades later, happily divorced and newly energized, Edith is living a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. When her best friend Maebh receives a call from an American man claiming to be her brother, Maebh must decide if she will meet him, and she asks Edith for help.

Ripeness is an extraordinary novel about familial love and the communities we create, about migration and new beginnings, and about what it is to have somewhere to belong.

©2025 Sarah Moss (P)2025 Macmillan Australia Audio Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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Another Fabulous Book

Sarah has done it again, a wonderful joyous experience. Gentle, sensitive, beautiful writing. Deserves to be a big hit!! Excellent narration.

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