Listening still

Resource Information

The work Listening still represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Listening still

Statement of responsibility

Anne Griffin

Creator

• trueGriffin, Anne, 1969-

Author

• trueGriffin, Anne, 1969-

Subject

• Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction
• Ireland -- Fiction
• Self-realisation in women -- Fiction
• Small cities -- Fiction
• Ability -- Fiction
• Undertakers and undertaking -- Fiction
• Women mediums -- Fiction
• Small cities -- Ireland -- Fiction
• Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the last words of the dead. Passed down from generation to generation, this gift means she is able to make wrongs right, to give voice to unspoken love and dying regrets. She and her father have worked happily alongside each other for years, but now he's unexpectedly announced that he wants to retire early and leave the business to her and her life is called into question. Does she really want to be married to the embalmer, or does she want to be with her childhood sweetheart, off in London? Does she want to have children, and pass this gift on to them? And does she want to be stuck in this small town, or is there more of the world she wants to see - like the South of France, where she's discovered a woman who shares her gift? Tied to her home by this unusual talent, she begins to question: what if what she's always thought of as a gift is a curse?

Cataloging source

NJB

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

calendars

Target audience

adult