

The Risk of Us
Author: Rachel Howard
Narrator: Susan Bennett
Unabridged: 5 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/09/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Rachel Howard
Narrator: Susan Bennett
Unabridged: 5 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/09/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
This is not an easy book to read, yet I couldn’t put it down. It’s a short book that manages to cover complex emotions as well as the complexity of the foster care system. The story is narrated by a woman whose name we never learn and she addresses her husband, Sebastian and the troubled child, Mare......more
The Risk of Us is an emotional, compelling and heartbreaking story. I found this to be a difficult book to read because of the subject matter and yet I couldn’t put it down. Sebastian and his wife (who we never discover her name) have made the decision to go through the fostering system which will h......more
This is the story of a couple’s struggle to fall in love with a child, told with lyrical precision and a complete absence of sentimentality. The unnamed narrator is a woman in her forties, a writer and teacher who comes to parenting relatively late and chooses to foster a child with a view to adopti......more
THE RISK of us is an incredible book about parenting, adoptions, relationships, and the judgments and expectations society puts on everyone without any easy answers. The way the protagonist, the mother, navigated a world where there are no hard truths and even the expects weren't always right was so......more