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Anne Enright
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Aoife Duffin
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Owen Roe
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Liza Ross
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Anne Enright
About this listen
An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.
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. Nell’s mother, Carmel McDaragh, knows the magic of her Daddo’s poetry too well, the kind of magic that makes women in their nighties slip outside for a kiss and then elope, as her mother Terry had done. In his poems to Carmel, Phil envisions his daughter as a bright-eyed wren ascending in escape from his hand. But it is Phil who departs, abandoning his wife and two young daughters.
Carmel struggles to reconcile “the poet” with the father whose desertion scars her life, along with that of her fiercely dutiful sister and their gentle, cancer-ridden mother. To distance herself from this betrayal, Carmel turns inward, raising Nell, her daughter, and one trusted love, alone.
The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of McDaragh women who must contend with inheritances of poetic wonder and of abandonment by a man who is lauded in public and carelessly selfish at home. Their other, stronger inheritance is a sustaining love that is “more than a strand of DNA, but a rope thrown from the past, a fat twisted rope, full of blood.” In sharp prose studded with crystalline poetry, Anne Enright masterfully braids a family story of longing, betrayal, and hope
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It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.
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Clark Griswold was onto something...at least with his annual holiday meltdown. And since the last three weeks of my life have been riddled with humbug—another breakup, a broken toe, an office promotion I deserved and didn’t get—I’m not at all in the mood to celebrate nor have the happ, happ, happiest Christmas EVER.
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Gaslighting and games
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My fiancé brought me tea and scrambled eggs in bed that morning, and we snuggled together, talking about buying our rings, and about our perfect wedding next year. Then we headed into town. He held my hand and gazed at the ring I liked best, a smile spreading slowly over his face. Then a glass of bubbly to celebrate. I felt flushed, excited and ready for the rest of my life with the man I loved. We race to get on the train home. It screams to a halt and I run towards its open doors. Made it. I think he’s right behind me — but when I turn around, he’s gone.
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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.
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Hmm
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- Sheryl L
- 05-08-24
The different kinds of love, spoken and unspoken in a family.
I so enjoyed hearing the perspectives of the generations in this Irish family. It sharpened the contrast of shared experiences, showing how we are often in our own head, even when among those we love, and we miss opportunities to connect and understand each other.
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- Meeshal
- 01-26-24
The narration was great
The story was a bit ho hum. Never really got into it or cared much about what was being said. If not for the amazing narration I would not have finished.
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- SK
- 05-05-24
Literary language all throughout!
Beautifully written and narrated. Peppered with meaningful gems about nature, human condition, gender, relationships. So rich! Thank you for yet another masterpiece!
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- Tabitha Lewis
- 12-03-23
Exceptional writing
I liked it so much I’m going to read everything else she’s written. It’s also great that she read the audiobook herself.
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- M. Elizabeth Bennett
- 03-03-24
Too dark for me
The writing in this book is absolutely gorgeous. But for me, the story was just too sad. And it’s not like I’m a Hallmark movie fan, lol! I usually prefer the realistic to the sappy. But this one was just a bit too realistic for me. The creepy patriarch, the abuse the young woman seeks out and endures, the mom’s negativity- just a downer. I stuck with it until the end but would not recommend.
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- Lauren K. Hobson
- 12-16-24
not sure i got it
This book came highly recommended to me by multiple people.I'm not sure if I just am unable to grasp it but I struggled to enjoy this story.It felt depressing and gloomy.
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- Rosie
- 01-03-24
Exquisite and insightful
Anne Enright’s language is so superb, her characters, dialogue, and settings so honest and convincing that her novels become reality on the page. I am always sorry to reach the end of her novels. This is not about plot, so don’t ask me for a summary of “what happens.”
The Wren, The Wren is a loving yet unflinching exploration of the human mind, of the human connections we make and break and what we leave behind… The good and the bad.
Literary in the very best sense - She makes art with language. She is more than a writer or a poet. She is a magician.
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- Possum Bean
- 12-09-23
The writing the writing
I have never done this before but when I was finished I started it all over again. It is just that good and Anne Enright who narrates Nell, is Nell, there just is not other voice in my head. I have spent way too much on Audible books and was hanging out for a month with the plus catalog then it was time for a break with a real book from my wish list. It was just so good. You know how your brain fills in the blanks, well this is a book for that and it was truly crafted to be that way. It's not a book that beats you up with the obvious. You have been these people in your life, you have felt this way.
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- nyc2cents
- 05-23-24
Tedious but beautiful language-phrasing
On the good side, the writing is superb On the bad side. The characters are not compelling. It’s hard to care what happens to them.
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- Ruth Glass
- 12-07-23
I couldn’t get past the first hour.
Didn’t like characters or the little bit of plot I experienced. I usually stick with things. This seems a waste of time.
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