The Life You Left cover art

The Life You Left

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Life You Left

By: Carmel Harrington
Narrated by: Breffni Holahan
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

The life you lived. The life you loved. The life you left…

Meet Sarah…

It started out like any other day for Sarah Lawler; getting the kids ready for school, making the pack lunches and juggling baby Ella’s feeds.

There was no way of knowing that her husband, Paul, would leave for work that morning and simply not come home.

Now the questions are piling up quicker than the unpaid bills and, unable to answer her children’s questions about where their Daddy is, Sarah is getting desperate.

But it turns out she isn’t quite as alone as she thought she was. When her beloved childhood friend, Edward, comes back into her life, Sarah thinks she’s finally been thrown a life line.

There’s just one problem with Edward: Sarah is the only person who can see him.

©2014 Carmel Harrington (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Romance

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Things I Should Have Told You cover art
Beyond Grace’s Rainbow cover art
The Woman at 72 Derry Lane cover art
Surviving Me cover art
Liars cover art
A Thousand Roads Home cover art
A Winter to Remember cover art
My Pear-Shaped Life cover art
The Sandycove Sunset Swimmers cover art
The Guest House by the Sea cover art
How Will I Know? cover art
Anyone but Him cover art
Life's What You Make It cover art
The Last Week of May cover art
Yours, Faithfully cover art
Mothers and Daughters cover art

Critic reviews

‘Engaging...at times emotional, at others thoughtful, The Life You Left will make you see life in a different way.’ – Women’s Way

‘Heartwrenching and heartwarming.’ – The Evening Herald

'Guaranteed to brighten your day – once you have dried your tears!' – Novelicious
All stars
Most relevant
What a great story. Kept me wondering until the end. Every Carmel Harrington book I have read so far has been just as great. Can’t wait to get into the next one ❤️

Just brilliant!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It was a full on read. I found it a very good and intense story but not a story I would have liked. It probably real to life in the modern world.

Nail biting story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A bit of a silly read. Storyline was poor. Carmel
Harringtons previous books were better

Poor storyline!’

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I discovered this author recently and adored "A thousand roads home' . But this one was painful to listen to. From whimsically reminiscing aloud beside her husbands deathbed about their lovely life together. To talking to an angel and everyone falling in love and finding a soul mate In the end. It was sickly sweet, to the point of cringing. I kept listening only to see if it would redeem itself, but unfortunately no.

Cheesey and predictable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.