Try free for 30 days
-
The Home Scar
- Narrated by: Beau Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $26.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
A Bird in Winter
- By: Louise Doughty
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, and one she's prepared for - but nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As she flees north using multiple disguises, Bird has to work out who exactly is on her trail, and who - if anyone - she can trust. Like many people, she has fantasised about escape for a long time, but now it's actually happening. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?
-
-
Great descriptive language
- By K.E.McCaffrey on 22-12-2023
-
So Late in the Day
- By: Claire Keegan
- Narrated by: Claire Keegan
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
-
-
Quite depressing
- By MS P M MACDONALD on 15-04-2024
-
In Her Place
- By: Edel Coffey
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ann devoted years to her mother's care. Now, in a bid to escape the emptiness of her old flat and the paperwork caused by her death, Ann finds herself in a bar upstate. She has been so good for so long, she deserves a little fun. Justin is also grieving but his wife is still alive. She has been dying for a long time and they say she doesn't have long left. He deserves a little fun, too. Justin asks Ann to move in just a few weeks later. A million miles away from her lonely life in New York, here Ann finds a world where she is wanted and needed by both Justin and his little girl, Sophie.
-
There's Something I Have to Tell You
- By: Michelle McDonagh
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On Glenbeg Farm, it was a morning like any other. Only the distressed bark of beloved collie Samson hinted that all was not well. When the bodies of wealthy matriarch Ursula Kennedy and her farmer husband Jimmy are pulled from the slurry pit, shock ricochets throughout the family and community. Everyone has questions, including the gardaí. Was this a tragic accident? Or is there more to it than meets the eye? Their son Rob, once destined for a high-flying legal career, is now involved in the family business.
-
One Year After You
- By: Shari Low
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One year ago today, Tress Walker’s husband was killed in a car accident, on a trip with his secret mistress whilst Tress gave birth to their son. But as time moves on, Tress has to choose whether to protect her fragile heart or open it to love again.
Noah Clark was equally devastated to discover his wife and his best friend were having an affair. Now the love of his life is asking for a second chance. But can there ever be a way back once the trust is broken?
-
-
Loved it!
- By Mrs H on 09-02-2024
-
The Sandycove Supper Club
- By: Siân O'Gorman
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After a whirlwind courtship, Roisin Kelly ignored the sceptics and objectors and married aspiring novelist Brody Brady. Fast forward one year and Roisin’s honeymoon is well and truly over. Brody has become her reclusive, freeloading lodger whilst he pens his masterpiece and she walks on eggshells. Working in the Council Planning office, Roisin dreams to escape the mundanity of her life. Her true passions are cooking and entertaining her family and friends but she lacks the confidence to take it any further.
-
A Bird in Winter
- By: Louise Doughty
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, and one she's prepared for - but nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As she flees north using multiple disguises, Bird has to work out who exactly is on her trail, and who - if anyone - she can trust. Like many people, she has fantasised about escape for a long time, but now it's actually happening. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?
-
-
Great descriptive language
- By K.E.McCaffrey on 22-12-2023
-
So Late in the Day
- By: Claire Keegan
- Narrated by: Claire Keegan
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
-
-
Quite depressing
- By MS P M MACDONALD on 15-04-2024
-
In Her Place
- By: Edel Coffey
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ann devoted years to her mother's care. Now, in a bid to escape the emptiness of her old flat and the paperwork caused by her death, Ann finds herself in a bar upstate. She has been so good for so long, she deserves a little fun. Justin is also grieving but his wife is still alive. She has been dying for a long time and they say she doesn't have long left. He deserves a little fun, too. Justin asks Ann to move in just a few weeks later. A million miles away from her lonely life in New York, here Ann finds a world where she is wanted and needed by both Justin and his little girl, Sophie.
-
There's Something I Have to Tell You
- By: Michelle McDonagh
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On Glenbeg Farm, it was a morning like any other. Only the distressed bark of beloved collie Samson hinted that all was not well. When the bodies of wealthy matriarch Ursula Kennedy and her farmer husband Jimmy are pulled from the slurry pit, shock ricochets throughout the family and community. Everyone has questions, including the gardaí. Was this a tragic accident? Or is there more to it than meets the eye? Their son Rob, once destined for a high-flying legal career, is now involved in the family business.
-
One Year After You
- By: Shari Low
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One year ago today, Tress Walker’s husband was killed in a car accident, on a trip with his secret mistress whilst Tress gave birth to their son. But as time moves on, Tress has to choose whether to protect her fragile heart or open it to love again.
Noah Clark was equally devastated to discover his wife and his best friend were having an affair. Now the love of his life is asking for a second chance. But can there ever be a way back once the trust is broken?
-
-
Loved it!
- By Mrs H on 09-02-2024
-
The Sandycove Supper Club
- By: Siân O'Gorman
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After a whirlwind courtship, Roisin Kelly ignored the sceptics and objectors and married aspiring novelist Brody Brady. Fast forward one year and Roisin’s honeymoon is well and truly over. Brody has become her reclusive, freeloading lodger whilst he pens his masterpiece and she walks on eggshells. Working in the Council Planning office, Roisin dreams to escape the mundanity of her life. Her true passions are cooking and entertaining her family and friends but she lacks the confidence to take it any further.
-
The Woman on the Bridge
- the poignant and romantic historical novel about fighting for the people you love
- By: Sheila O'Flanagan
- Narrated by: Grainne Gillis
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Inspired by the true story of Sheila's grandmother, The Woman on the Bridge is a riveting novel of love, rebellion and families torn apart by war. Dramatic, shocking, and full of insight into women's lives, this is a powerful, haunting and unforgettable listen.
-
-
A really good read! Enjoyed it thoroughly.
- By Anonymous User on 11-05-2023
-
The Rachel Incident
- By: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Clara Harte
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...
-
-
Pitch perfect
- By tash on 24-10-2023
-
Queen Bee
- By: Ciara Geraghty
- Narrated by: Angeline Ball
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Fifty-year-old Agatha Doyle loves her empty nest – until hot flushes, a pair of killer heels and an overbearing man who won’t stop talking conspire to change her life. In one moment of madness, she unwittingly becomes a heroine to women everywhere. But can she become the heroine of her own life? Sometimes you just have to wing it.
-
Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- By: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. She became a mother at 15 and ended up homeless. Five rackety years followed - barely coping, drinking to escape - until Katriona, now living in her father's native Dublin, hit rock bottom. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around.
-
-
Thought provoking, challenging, inspiring
- By Fiona Jane Harris on 02-07-2023
-
The Guest House by the Sea
- By: Faith Hogan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon, Flora Montgomery
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Esme has run the guest house for as long as anyone in Ballycove can remember. But in her declining years, her sight is failing, and when she has a fall on the eve of the summer season, she is forced to take a back seat for the first time in her life. From her chair in the entry hall, not much passes Esme by. There's Cora, the wife visiting indefinitely... without her husband; Niamh, the city professional with a life-changing decision to make; and Phyllie, the grandmother whose family is slipping away from her.
-
-
I would love to visit!
- By Anonymous User on 16-12-2023
-
The Summer Party
- By: Rebecca Heath
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Summer, 2000. In the tranquil town of Queen's Point in southern Australia, the Whitlam family marks the end of every season with a lavish party in their clifftop mansion. Here, clutching her first glass of real champagne, the summer breeze intoxicating on her skin, sixteen-year-old Lucy Ross is kissed for the very first time. And then, in the shadows of the rose garden, she sees something she shouldn't.
Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky
'The home scar—that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.'
'Wait, they leave the rock?'
'Of course. How else would they survive?
On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past.
When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they're drawn back there to revisit a glorious childhood summer, the last before their mother died. But their journey uncovers memories of a far less happy summer—one that had tragic consequences.
Confronted with the havoc their mother left in her wake, Cassie and Christo are forced to face their past and—ready or not—to deal with the messy tangle of parental love and neglect that shaped them.
The Home Scar is a luminous and precise story about the inheritance of loss and the possibility of finally making peace with it.
Critic Reviews
"Such a treat...another stunner from Kathleen MacMahon." (Henrietta McKervey)
"A gorgeous story of sibling love. It reads like a psychological adventure story into memory. I thoroughly enjoyed following Cassie and Christo's quest to discover the tangled roots of a past that binds them together." (Louise Nealon)
"An exceptional novel by one of Ireland's foremost literary talents. A book not to be missed." (Anne Griffin)