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Listening Still
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Listening Still
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Publisher's Summary
The new novel by the best-selling author of When All Is Said.
From the best-selling 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 17 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 best-selling 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.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Tora F
- 08-12-2022
Wonderful performance, powerful heart wrenching story
So full disclosure- I picked this book entirely because Nicola Coughlan was the narrator. I am a big fan of her voice work, she is very talented and does a superb job creating the different voices and accents for the characters.
The story is about Jeanie Masterson who works with her father and aunt at the family owned funeral home. Jeanie has inherited the family gift of being able to talk to people after they have died and I found the stories relating to this to be quite touching. However for me the main storyline revolves around Jeanie’s decision to stay in her small Irish town and work in the family business and marry her childhood friend Niall and the ramifications of these decisions.
I found the story to be heart wrenching- at one point my chest literally ached for a Jeanie and Niall. I kind of hated the ending but it was consistent with the character’s behaviour throughout the book.
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