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Ruth & Pen
- Narrated by: Jody O'Neill
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international best seller Notes to Self.
Dublin, 7th October 2019.
One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, but both asking themselves the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world doesn't seem willing to make space for them, to be with themselves?
Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice—to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge.
For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.
Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple daily quest of living.
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- dagulek
- 22-02-23
Good story - badly narrated
I really disliked how Pen and Alice's parts were narrated. Why was the voice always so weak and faint in comparison to the adults' voices? And the butchering of Latin... 😔 Did not enjoy the way the book was read.
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- Anonymous User
- 29-06-22
Painful
Narrator sounds like Amy Hibernian which put me off. Disliked the story and the way it was written.
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- Aurora Aleson
- 09-06-23
Not recommended
Although the idea is interesting, to look inside the two protagonist, the development was done in a manner that one becomes so bored that looses interest. Amazed that was done by a drama professor!
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