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Claire Keegan
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Claire Keegan
About this listen
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster.
'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The Times
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
From one of the finest writers working today, Keegan's new story asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women. Is it possible to love without sharing?
'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel
'Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Tóibín
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Story4 out of 5 stars 37
From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws listeners into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off to keep a date nine years in the waiting. Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife. Throughout the collection, Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible, but out of order and missing one story
- By Jason on 07-26-23
By: Claire Keegan
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Foster
- By: Claire Keegan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 947
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 809
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 806
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- By CTKG on 11-01-22
By: Claire Keegan
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Small Things Like These
- By: Claire Keegan
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,025
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,772
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,770
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Charming and Inspiring
- By David P on 09-05-22
By: Claire Keegan
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Four Letters of Love
- A Novel
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Niall Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story5 out of 5 stars 52
Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas’s own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it. Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She’s a passionate girl, but her brother is the real prodigy, a musician. And yet this family, too, is struck by tragedy: a seizure leaves the boy mute and unable to play.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable
- By Cat Lover on 09-29-24
By: Niall Williams
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The Forgotten Waltz
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Heather O'Neill
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4 out of 5 stars 72
Irish novelist Anne Enright won the coveted Man Booker Prize for her eloquent novel The Gathering. In The Forgotten Waltz, Enright crafts a stunning tale about a Dublin woman’s affair and its heartrending consequences. Gina Moynihan is already married when she meets Seán Vallely. But longing and desire soon overtake them - and their lives begin to crumble shortly after.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- By Amazosity on 04-30-24
By: Anne Enright
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The Writer's Room
- By: Charlotte Wood
- Narrated by: Ailsa Piper, Kellie Jones, Troy Planet
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Charlotte Wood’s The Writer's Room is essential for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide variety of well-known writers, range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work to intricate - and intimate - revelations about the ways in which they work. Frank about the failures and successes, the struggles and triumphs of the writing life, this is a must for writers.
By: Charlotte Wood
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John
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
In the years following the death of Jesus Christ, John the Apostle, now a frail, blind old man, lives in forced exile on the desolate island of Patmos with a small group of his disciples. It is against this turbulent background and inspired by Jesus's radical message of love and forgiveness that John comes to dictate his Gospel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating study of the power of faith, but...
- By Andrew on 08-24-17
By: Niall Williams
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Shake the Devil Off
- A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans
- By: Ethan Brown
- Narrated by: James Avery
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 130
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 104
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Story4 out of 5 stars 103
They looked like a slightly mischievous version of the all-American couple: a handsome army veteran and his gorgeous artist girlfriend. Zackery Bowen, after completing his tour of Iraq, came home to New Orleans, and in two weeks before Hurricane Katrina, he met Addie Hall. Their improvised, hard-partying endurance during and after the storm inspired news outlets around the world to feature the couple as the personification of the indomitable spirit of New Orleans. But beneath the surface, trouble was brewing.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this one!
- By Robin on 08-08-10
By: Ethan Brown
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Roman Stories
- By: Jhumpa Lahiri, Todd Portnowitz - translator
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campbell, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth. Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By linda on 11-21-23
By: Jhumpa Lahiri, and others
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Dubliners
- Penguin Classics
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Andrew Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 199
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 200
Joyce's first major work, written when he was only 25, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audible version of The Dubliners
- By Frequent Flyer Reader on 11-01-19
By: James Joyce
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The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac
- Stories
- By: Louise Kennedy
- Narrated by: Brid Brennan
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women’s lives are etched by poverty—material, emotional, sexual—but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they’ve been dealt.
By: Louise Kennedy
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The Safekeep
- By: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 333
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 333
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This One Should Win
- By K. Bella Bestia on 10-13-24
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Close to Home
- A Novel
- By: Michael Magee
- Narrated by: Conor MacNeill
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story5 out of 5 stars 20
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he—mostly—stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he's told, and his future is lit with promise. But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the same—the same friends doing the same gear in the same clubs; the same lost brothers and mad fathers; the same closed doors; the same silences. There are no jobs, Sean's degree isn't worth the paper it's written on, and no one will give him the time of day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So bleak .
- By BranWick on 12-10-23
By: Michael Magee
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The Wren, the Wren
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aoife Duffin, Owen Roe, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather’s poetry seems to guide her home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The different kinds of love, spoken and unspoken in a family.
- By Sheryl L on 05-08-24
By: Anne Enright
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Time of the Child
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 325
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 308
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Story5 out of 5 stars 308
Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father’s shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love – and passed up another offer of marriage from an unsuitable man. But in the Advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy’s lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The very top of my Audio listens.
- By Whipsnead on 12-24-24
By: Niall Williams
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History of the Rain
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Jennifer McGrath
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 205
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces, and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The language is astoundingly beautiful.
- By Kindle Customer on 05-30-17
By: Niall Williams
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Paris Stories
- By: Mavis Gallant
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.
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5 out of 5 stars
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beautifully narrated
- By Dennis on 05-23-07
By: Mavis Gallant
Magnificent.
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Incredible Writing
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Mesmerizing narration
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Author’s ability to pluck the mystery out of everyday life
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subtle use of symbols and foreshadowing that benefits from a second reading
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This Audible is not the full Kindle/Book version.
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Keegan is always amazing
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Superb
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How many dream of a change. Favorite moment... She walked away
Will it ever change?
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Fantastic writing and narration
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