Ill Leave You With This, Kylie Ladd
Ill Leave You With This, Kylie Ladd
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I'll Leave You With This
A totally heartbreaking and gripping family drama

Author: Kylie Ladd

Narrator: Jo Van Es

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2023

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

A totally heartbreaking but uplifting story about family, loss and second chances.

Three years after Daniel was killed by a senseless act of violence, all his sisters have left of him are their memories - and responsibility for Daniel's mischievous dachshund John Thomas. Daniel donated his organs, his death facilitating life-saving miracles for other families, while his own loved ones struggle to come to terms with their devastating loss, each at a crossroads of her own:

It's been twelve years since film director Bridie had a hit, and while she's still invited to glitzy media events, nowadays it is as her successful actor husband's plus one.

Clare and her wife Sophie have been through four rounds of IVF and while Clare remains hopeful to keep trying, it may be at the cost of her marriage . . .

Conscientious Allison looks after everyone. Her younger siblings, her children and the many patients she treats in her job as Chief Obstetrician at a big teaching hospital. But who's looking out for Allison?

Emma is looking for love, but isn't having much luck on dates. And there's something she can't tell anyone, whether romantic prospect or even her family, about the real reason she quietly abandoned a musical career that she loved . . .

When Clare suggests that they try to make contact with the recipients of Daniel's organs to honour their brother, not everyone thinks it's a good idea. It's a heart-wrenching process, but will meeting those that their brother saved help to bring the sisters back together, or will old tensions and surfacing secrets splinter the fragile family ties forever?

(P) 2022 Penguin Random House Australia

About Kylie Ladd

Kylie Ladd is a novelist, psychologist and freelance writer.Her five previous novels have been published in Australia and overseas, and her latest, The Way Back, has been optioned for film.She has also co-edited and co-authored two non-fiction books, and her essays and articles have been published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, Meanjin, O Magazine, Good Medicine, Kill Your Darlings and Reader's Digest, amongst others.Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on July 19, 2023

A family builds positives from their loss: inspiring😇 I loved this book for all its aspects but most especially the organ donor theme and the glimpse into the lives of four Australian siblings and the way each handles the grief brought by their brother's violent and unexpected passing. Brother Daniel......more

Goodreads review by Annette on July 17, 2023

I'll Leave You With This by Kylie Ladd is a heart warming and inspiring book that moves through a huge range of emotions ranging from sadness and desolation to anger, hope, acceptance and of course love. The book is the story of four very different sisters who are each coping in their own way with th......more

Goodreads review by Daisy on November 06, 2023

I'll Leave You With This was a compelling and incredibly moving read from beginning to end. Such a brilliant idea for a story as well. A family torn apart by grief, all struggling in different ways and miles apart from one another. When one sister Bridie decides to make a film about their brother Da......more

Goodreads review by Angie on July 31, 2023

What a wonderful book! In every way I adored this book. It was so easy to read, the word just flowed over me. The characters were so varied and real and the plot was perfect. This book was so much more than expected. It not only deals with the topic of organ donation, but also with family. What does......more

Goodreads review by Lorraine on August 08, 2023

I enjoyed this book. It dealt with the relationships between vastly different siblings and their individual reactions to the death of the only brother. The characterisation of the family members is well done, it is easy to identify with them and how their personalities developed over the years. The bo......more


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Heartwarming, uplifting, inspiring . . . a compelling read Graeme Simsion

A page turner from the first to the last - I fell in love with all the characters and was gripped by the plot. Everyone will be reading this fantastic, heart-warming book . . . This is Kylie Ladd at her very best Sally Hepworth

Her characters step off the page and straight into your heart Meredith Jaffe

Reading this book feels like eavesdropping on a lively family dinner. I love the O'Shea sisters and the journey of discovery that brings them closer to their brother, and to each other Kerri Sackville

Move over Jodi Picoult. Kylie Ladd creates ethical complications, then shows us both sides with uncanny insight into human nature. I inhaled this book! Fleur McDonald

I loved this book. It's funny, joyful and sharp. An entirely satisfying meal of a novel that doesn't shy away from what is hard about families, it also manages to capture how family can restore you to yourself Maggie MacKellar

The author's background as a neuropsychologist really shines through in this important book about how an extraordinary act of generosity can unite a devastated family. Told with warmth, compassion and humanity, I'll Leave You With This drew me in from the first page. Ladd blends depth and pace in this thought-provoking
novel that is filled with hope and humour Joanna Nell

I loved it. It's such a warm-hearted, compassionate story, full emotional insight and hope for the future and so sensitively written Jill Childs

A perfect book club read. I want everyone I know to read it too so we can talk about the wonderfully drawn O'Shea family and their dilemmas. Highly recommended Imogen Clark

Rich, warm, humorous and tender, this is a thoroughly satisfying tale of love - and tensions - between siblings, and the aftermath of a devastating loss. It's an unsentimental and touching portrait of a big family learning to live with grief and their differences, as they are drawn together by their shared past and then find they still have more to give each other than any of them could have imagined. Ali Mercer