Listening Still : The new novel by the bestselling author of When All is Said

From The Bestselling Author Of When All Is Said Comes A Delicious New Novel About A Young Woman Who Can Hear The Dead - A Talent Which Is Both A Gift And A Curse. Jeanie Masterson Has A Gift: She Can Hear The Recently Dead And Give Voice To Their Final Wishes And Revelations. Inherited From Her Father, This Gift Has Enabled The Family Undertakers To Flourish In Their Small Irish Town. Yet She Has Always Been Uneasy About Censoring Some Of The Dead's Last Messages To The Living. Unsure, Too, About The Choice She Made When She Left School Seventeen Years Ago: To Stay Or Leave For A New Life In London With Her Charismatic Teenage Sweetheart. So When Jeanie's Parents Unexpectedly Announce Their Plan To Retire, She Is Jolted Out Of Her Limbo. In This Captivating Successor To Her Bestselling Debut, Anne Griffin Portrays A Young Woman Who Is Torn Between Duty, A Comfortable Marriage And A Role She Both Loves And Hates And Her Last Chance To Break Free, Unaware She Has Not Been Alone In Softening The Truth For A Long While. "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?"--Provided by publisher