The End of Loneliness

A Novel

De: Benedict Wells, Charlotte Collins - translator

Narrado por: Will Damron

From internationally best-selling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss and of the lives we never get to live.

"[D]azzling storytelling...The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished - and eternal." (John Irving)

Jules Moreau’s childhood is shattered after the sudden death of his parents. Enrolled in boarding school where he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are forced to live apart, the once vivacious and fearless Jules retreats inward, preferring to live within his memories - until he meets Alva, a kindred soul caught in her own grief. Fifteen years pass, and the siblings remain strangers to one another, bound by tragedy and struggling to recover the family they once were. Jules, still adrift, is anchored only by his desires to be a writer and to reunite with Alva, who turned her back on their friendship on the precipice of it becoming more. But, just as it seems they can make amends for time wasted, invisible forces - whether fate or chance - intervene.

A kaleidoscopic family saga told through the fractured lives of the three Moreau siblings, alongside a faltering, recovering love story, The End of Loneliness is a stunning meditation on the power of our memories, of what can be lost and what can never be let go. With inimitable compassion and luminous, affecting prose, Benedict Wells contends with what it means to find a way through life, while never giving up hope you will find someone to go with you.

©2018 Benedict Wells (P)2019 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The trajectory of a long life, from childhood, through the adult disappointments, through parenthood: this is what novels do best. Our fate is everything we become; yet what happens to Jules and Alva, in the hands of Benedict Wells, is dazzling storytelling.... The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished - and eternal.” (John Irving, author of The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, and Avenue of Mysteries)

“Wells has constructed a probing study of self-creation and forgiveness.” (The Boston Globe)

“A life-affirming work.” (Vogue)

Good for lonely hearts.

I work late night shift at a hospital and this was my audio companion for 3 days.

Introspective

Something to listen to when you're in the mood to contemplate life, family and relationships. I'm not sure what the author was aiming for, but there were some "nuggets" of life lessons in this rather disparate story.

Sad, but good

This was a very good and thorough story with a little love story mixed in there. I do think that the twist that eventually came was very necessary or else the book would’ve been too simple. Great character development,good structure, and good flow. I actually finished it in one day. The narrator did an excellent job.

Bravo!

Outstanding narration of this thought provoking, exciting book! This is a must listen experience, the story was so detailed that I could see every character and imagine each scene.
I was disappointed to hear it come to an end.

A pretty good read.

I was fooled by the black and white cover thinking this book would be more “artistic” than it was. It was okay but I don’t really understand how the title relates to the story. All relationships can end resulting in loneliness. I just didn’t get it.