Leaving

A Novel

By: Roxana Robinson

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites—threatening the foundations of the lives they've built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston.

Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in Sarah, who feels emotionally alive for the first time in decades. Still, she hesitates to reclaim a chance at love after her painful divorce and years of framing her life around her children and her work. Warren has no such reservations: he wants to leave his marriage but can't predict how his wife and daughter will react. As their affair intensifies, Sarah and Warren must confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.

Leaving charts a passage through loyalty and desire as it builds to a shattering conclusion. In her boldest and most powerful work to date, Roxana Robinson demonstrates her "trademark gifts as an intelligent, sensitive analyst of family life" (Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune) in an engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves.

©2024 Roxana Robinson (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

A book with deep meaningful descriptions of life’s moments.

The voice reading this book was unpleasant to listen to. I think I would have enjoyed the book much better reading it and not listening to it. Unemotional, one tone voice, grating to my ear.

Dreadful robotic voiceover

Terrible voiceover. Almost ruined the book. I even returned it once, because I couldn’t stand the voiceover performance. But then I realize my library doesn’t have it as an audiobook and there was no other option.

Really good book but awful narration

I almost gave up on the book because of the wooden narration - it was really hard for me to listen to. But the writing is really good and insightful, and the characters are engaging.

Wonderfully written book but audible version has terrible narration

The whining tone, no differentiation between characters such as Sarah and her daughter, Meg, and Katrina, narrator, etc.

Boring emptiness

Hard to finish. Little substance. Terrible audible narration. Characters difficult to connect with and not well executed. Finished solely for book club.

Story is very good

But…the narration was horrible. Her voice flat and disinterested. Was hard to get through but stayed with it based on the story and writing.

Disappointed

The grating voice of the narrator made me sorry I purchased this audio book. Had I not needed it for book club, I would have deleted it as soon as I started it.

Overall I was disappointed by the story and the less than engaging writing.

Good character development

I really disliked the reader’s voice. I hated the ending. It was unexpected and ended too quickly and easily to make it satisfying as the reader.

Did not care for the reader

Her voice was not fun to listen to but I really liked the story Interesting

Sad depressing and a lesson in lonely

Too much hopelessness too much depression too much wasted life
Too much sadness more selfishness than needed