Listening Still, Anne Griffin
Listening Still, Anne Griffin
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Listening Still
A Novel

Author: Anne Griffin

Narrator: Nicola Coughlan

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2022


Synopsis

Narrated by Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls)

From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing 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 much-lauded debut, When All Is Said, Anne Griffin portrays a young woman who is torn between duty, a comfortable marriage, a calling she both loves and hates and her last chance to break free. Listening Still is a heartachingly honest look at what we give up and what we gain when we choose to follow our heart.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

About Anne Griffin

ANNE GRIFFIN’s first novel When All Is Said was a People Magazine Book of the Week and an Indie Next Pick. In the U.K it was a #1 Irish Times bestseller and on the shortlists for the John McGahern Award for Literature, the Hennessey New Irish Writing Award and The Sunday Business Post Short Story Competition. Anne’s work has been featured in The Irish Times and The Stinging Fly. Before becoming a writer, she had an eight-year career as a bookseller at Waterstones. She lives in Ireland with her husband and son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by *TUDOR^QUEEN* on January 22, 2022

Three Stars I was alerted of this book by a publisher marketing email, perhaps because I had read this author's previous book When All Is Said. This is a book about a family owned funeral home in Kilcross, Ireland. There is one service, though, that is uniquely special to them: the father and daughte......more

Goodreads review by Chantel on August 17, 2022

Jeanie Masterson is thirty-two (32), she is married to her lifelong friend, Niall & they work alongside Jeanie’s parents as Undertakers in Kilcross, Ireland. This book follows Jeanie as she wades her way through adult situations without ever investing any ounce of truth, honesty or bits of herself;......more

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on April 28, 2021

Listening Still is a dazzling and utterly beguiling much-anticipated new novel from Anne Griffin. It centres on 32-year-old Jeanie Masterson who has a rare and exceptionally strange gift: the ability to hear the words of the dead for a short period of time after their passing. Inherited from her fat......more