Exit Wounds

A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars

De: Peter Godwin

Narrado por: Peter Godwin

An “eloquent…beautiful” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir from award-winning writer Peter Godwin about his evolving relationships with the women and places that shaped his life.

Peter Godwin’s mother is dying.

Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister’s London home.

Peter has spent his life missing his Zimbabwean childhood, a longing that does not diminish as he reflects on his time as a journalist on the frontlines of combat around the world, or life in New York with his English wife and transatlantic children. In his mother’s final months, he must come to terms with everything his family was and wasn’t: the secrets they kept from one another, the stoicism that sometimes threatened to destroy them, and the beauty of the wildly different places they called home.

With generations of history behind him, Godwin lyrically brings us into the spaces which make us question and suffer, shows us how we can heal our own scars, and celebrate the lives we have among family and friends.©2025 Peter Godwin (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

Story telling at its finest

The story-telling, cultural history and narration made this book an enriching, enjoyable listen but when the author also shares relatable experiences and emotions so eloquently, it helps others take a step forward in our own life journey. I thank the author for giving words to complex situations so difficult to sort out.

Deeply moving, exquisitely beautiful, and stealthily funny.

In a world plagued with photoshopped fakery, Godwin delivers a poignant account of real life, at turns excruciating and hilarious. His gorgeous prose and gimlet eye for detail are intoxicating, transporting us around the world and deep within our own hearts.

Exquisite Memoir

Peter Godwin is a phenomenal writer. This book traces the death of his exceptional mother, a physician, and the dissolution of his marriage. Yet it’s so much more. Beautifully told in his gorgeous Zimbabwean accent, each sentence takes us into a well-examined life.

Lives lived & living

Written beautifully .. thoughtfully done, a review of a family, the world, how lives intermingle and go on

The alliterations

Wonderful narration, wonderful recounting of lives and life. Highly recommend the audiobook. It wouldn’t be the same without the authors voice

A well enough written bore

If this person is famous, I do
not know of him. The story should have been for family and friends.