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Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school 17 years ago: to stay or leave for a new life in London with her charismatic teenage sweetheart.

A surreal and darkly comic collection of stories that offer a fresh and irreverent look at life in contemporary Northern Ireland from “one of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation” (The Sunday Times, London). Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the...

Narrated by Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls) From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead—a talent which is both a gift and a curse. Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the...

Twenty-seven-year-old Jared has lived in the same little town in the Appalachian Mountains with the same people and the same traditions his entire life. Gossip travels fast. When Jared realizes he is trans, everything changes. Naming herself Claire, she tries to come out to her family and is shattered when she is rejected by everyone besides her twin sister.

Mrs. Marsh spends her days caring for her home and avoiding her neighbors whenever possible. A home invasion by a pompous goop and a monstrous, flaming rat creature will threaten her peaceful retirement plans.