One Night Two Souls Went Walking

Written by Ellen Cooney

Narrated by Amanda Dolan

"I believe in expecting light. That's my job."

A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-ready dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients—young and old, living last moments or
navigating fundamentally altered lives—their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second
Chances) returns with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781705005941

Ellen Cooney

Ellen Cooney is the author of A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies and other novels. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker and many literary journals. She has taught writing at MIT, Harvard, and Boston College, and now lives with her dogs Andy, Skip, and Maxine - who are, each in their way, rescues.

Reviews for One Night Two Souls Went Walking

[tymfos · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was an impulse buy for our library -- I read a review somewhere, not here -- and an impulse read for me after a friend read it.The story is told from the POV of a hospital chaplain, an Episcopal priest who is quite likeable and not at all dogmatic. She is a dog lover. She misses the deceased hospital therapy dog, and even believes she sees his spirit by the tree where his ashes were buried. And she makes friends with the new therapy dog. By night's end, they will share an adventure!We walk with her through a night shift at the hospital, encountering many and varied people and situations, and sharing her thoughts on life during the quiet times.She is pondering what to do about a long-distance relationship with a former lover who is overseas studying near-death, out-of-body experiences with a neurologist, when she encounters a man who claimed to have had one -- floating through the hospital when something went wrong during a surgery. She approaches the claim with skepticism.This is a delightful, thoughtful book that I enjoyed very much.