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Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson
Narrated by: Hannah Choi
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Publisher's summary

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
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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.

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Boring emptiness

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

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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.

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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.

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Sad depressing and a lesson in lonely

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

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Awful narrator

I could not get through this book because I could not stand the narrators voice and tone. I gave the story 3 stars because honestly I didn’t hate the story and I only made it through 1/4 of the book because I listen while driving and I thought I was going to fall asleep at the wheel.

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BORING BOOK

Narrator was monotone and read as if she was bored, which carried the storyline to beyond boring -- will NOT finish this tired book, though the author did incorporate 'big' vocabulary words.

Plus, way too much 'she said' - 'he said, annoying and distracting.

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loust narrator

canstant "he said" or "she said" distracting. I would ask for mon ey back but they dont seen to honor any longer

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Don’t bother .. the audible version was the most depressing voice I have ever listened to…

What a waste of time… I should have not bothered reading it after listening to it for an hour…

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Excellent

I waited a few months for this one to come out as an audio book. It's an interesting story, well told. Not sure why these women found Warren compelling, he stuck me as a jerk. He was a practiced adulterer who fancied himself as Newland Archer, when in fact, he couldn't abide by his unsophisticated wife. After all, he didn't spend years pining for Sarah, he was busy cheating on his spouse with others. This is a reason that I didn't buy the fact that they weren't soulmates, longing for each other over the decades. Regardless, overall, this was a good listen, well worth the time, wait, and credit.

The reader presented the story in monotone, more or less. The story deserved a reader who seemed to enjoy the book.

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