The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories

Written by Simon Van Booy

Narrated by Various

An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy.

Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people's stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes readers into the innermost lives of everyday people. From a family saved from ruin by a mysterious benefactor, to a downtrodden boxer who shows unexpected kindness to a mugger, these masterfully written tales reveal not only the precarious balance maintained between grief and happiness in our lives, but also how the echoes of personal tragedy can shape us for the better.

Audiobook Table of Contents:

• A Sacrifice, read by Alana Kerr Collins
• The Green Blanket, read by James Fouhey
• Playing with Dolls, read by Simon van Booy
• The Pigeon, read by Giordan Diaz
• The Hitchhiker, read by Alana Kerr Collins
• Not Dying, read by Darren Burrows
• The Saddest Case of True Love, read by Simon van Booy
• The Doorman, read by James Fouhey

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
• Release date: Oct 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9780525641124

Simon Van Booy

Simon Van Booy has written more than a dozen works of fiction (including Night Came with Many Stars and The Presence of Absence) and is the editor of three volumes of philosophy. Raised in rural North Wales, Simon currently lives between London and New York, where he is a volunteer EMT for Central Park Medical Unit and RVAC. In early 2020, he rescued his first mouse.