Joanna Cannon has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 15 ratings. The most-rated is Three Things About Elsie.
Three Things About Elsie
Summary
There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing...might take a little bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light; and, if the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died 60 years ago? From the author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, this audiobook will teach you many things, but here are three of them: The fine threads of humanity will connect us all forever. There is so very much more to anyone than the worst thing they have ever done. Even the smallest life can leave the loudest echo.
©2018 Joanna Cannon (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Breaking and Mending
Summary
The unforgettable memoir from the best-selling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie.
A few years ago, I found myself in A&E. I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well or even changed my expression for months. I sat in a cubicle, behind paper-thin curtains, and I shook with the effort of not crying. I was an inch away from defeat...but I knew I had to carry on. Because I wasn't the patient. I was the doctor.
No sleep, skeleton support, a head full of anatomy lectures and idealism: this is life for our junior doctors in their first few years on the wards. Here, Joanna Cannon tells her own story in visceral, heart-rending snapshots.
We walk with her, facing extraordinary and daunting moments and meeting her patients: from attending her first postmortem, learning the overwhelming power of a well or badly chosen word and sitting with a young woman in her final hours to small sustaining acts of kindness and connection. These moments teach her that emotional care can be just as critical as restoring a heartbeat - and eventually lead her to her true home in psychiatry.
Deeply moving, warm, compassionate and beautifully written, Breaking and Mending shows us why we need to better care for mental health - and for those who care for us.
©2019 Joanna Cannon (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
Summary
Exclusive to Audible! Listen to the author talk about the inspiration behind the book at the end of this recording. England, 1976. Mrs Creasy is missing, and The Avenue is alive with whispers. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, 10-year-olds Grace and Tilly decide to take matters into their own hands. And as the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets, the amateur detectives will find much more than they imagined....
©2015 Joanna Cannon (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited