My review: 2.75 ⭐
This one was a bit slow going for me and I considered not finishing it. But I like to fulfill my commitments, so I pushed through.
How fun would it be to be able to hear dead people? For Jeanie it’s both a gift and a curse.
There were some sad parts. I did find my mind wandering at times and I wasn’t sure if she was talking to the living or the dead. This narration was really good though.
This is my first time with this author and I’m not sure yet if I’ll read her again. I guess it depends on the premise of her next book.
*Thanks to Netgalley, Macmillan Audio and Anne Griffin for the advance audiobook copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
Book blurb: Release date ~ March 1, 2022
From Anne Griffin, the best-selling 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 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 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.
