Audiobook4 hours
Subsidence
Written by Helen O'Leary
Narrated by Helen O'Leary
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this audiobook
Subsidence
A daughter longs to guide her mother through the hardest of journeys of memory loss, paving a way with her own remembrance; for memory is an actor’s most powerful tool. Before the settling and subsidence of life, Hayley prepares to perform a show to honour her mother, Joan. Death is never convenient and despite the theatre being booked, posters printed, and tickets sold, it comes for Joan just before opening night. Subsidence gives grace to deep wounds laid bare as memory fails but love endures; deep, fathomless, patient love. A love that has come full circle, filled with hope and promise. The actor strides across grey days of grief, into the all-conquering silver spotlight of centerstage, to share a life well-loved and lived.
Endorsement:
'Subsidence is a beautiful and tender rendering of memoir, driven by the author’s need to remember and honour her mother, who lived with dementia. O’Leary pulls the threads of memory together in a mesmerising weave: a gossamer spell. Her lived experience of theatre and her childhood with her mother are woven across timelines both past and present in this stunning experimental work. Subsidence is vital reading for those with loved ones experiencing memory loss.'
– Anna Jacobson (Author of Amnesia Findings)
A daughter longs to guide her mother through the hardest of journeys of memory loss, paving a way with her own remembrance; for memory is an actor’s most powerful tool. Before the settling and subsidence of life, Hayley prepares to perform a show to honour her mother, Joan. Death is never convenient and despite the theatre being booked, posters printed, and tickets sold, it comes for Joan just before opening night. Subsidence gives grace to deep wounds laid bare as memory fails but love endures; deep, fathomless, patient love. A love that has come full circle, filled with hope and promise. The actor strides across grey days of grief, into the all-conquering silver spotlight of centerstage, to share a life well-loved and lived.
Endorsement:
'Subsidence is a beautiful and tender rendering of memoir, driven by the author’s need to remember and honour her mother, who lived with dementia. O’Leary pulls the threads of memory together in a mesmerising weave: a gossamer spell. Her lived experience of theatre and her childhood with her mother are woven across timelines both past and present in this stunning experimental work. Subsidence is vital reading for those with loved ones experiencing memory loss.'
– Anna Jacobson (Author of Amnesia Findings)
Related to Subsidence
Related audiobooks
The Believer: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eight Perfect Hours: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Departures Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Save a Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Valentina Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Neighbour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Scare Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Frankie Meets Johnny Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the Eye of the Storm Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Winning Nia: A Second Chance Rock Star Romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Tide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wait for Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ghost That Got Away: Coffee and Ghosts Season 2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Seven Shades of You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Family Radio Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lying Year Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nightshift: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last One to Fall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Midnight at the Wandering Vineyard Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Across the Water Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Prairie Home Christmas Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Greenwich Park Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mistakes In The Background Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Monsterheart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Enthronement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDown the Drain Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mine: A Novel of Obsession Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Make Her Pay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Biography & Memoir For You
Twisted Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Blood and Ash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hit and Run Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Divine Rivals: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If He Had Been with Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Child Called It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Local Woman Missing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Lies Between Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When No One Is Watching: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Five Years: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Later Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Sematary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ripe: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy League Counterfeiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Subsidence
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews