Nora Webster: A Novel

  • Author: Colm Toibin
  • Narrator: Fiona Shaw
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 11:19:58
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Synopsis

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Literary Fiction

From one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice—“heartrendingly transcendant” (The New York Times, Janet Maslin).

Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself.

Nora Webster “may actually be a perfect work of fiction” (Los Angeles Times), by a “beautiful and daring” writer (The New York Times Book Review) at the zenith of his career, able to “sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY). “Miraculous...Tóibín portrays Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).

Chapters

  • NoraWebster 01 Title

    Duration: 42s
  • NoraWebster 02 Ch1

    Duration: 01h02min
  • NoraWebster 03 Ch2

    Duration: 39min
  • NoraWebster 04 Ch3

    Duration: 33min
  • NoraWebster 05 Ch4

    Duration: 46min
  • NoraWebster 06 Ch5

    Duration: 37min
  • NoraWebster 07 Ch6

    Duration: 14min
  • NoraWebster 08 Ch7

    Duration: 37min
  • NoraWebster 09 Ch8

    Duration: 12min
  • NoraWebster 10 Ch9

    Duration: 29min
  • NoraWebster 11 Ch10

    Duration: 22min
  • NoraWebster 12 Ch11

    Duration: 10min
  • NoraWebster 13 Ch12

    Duration: 41min
  • NoraWebster 14 Ch13

    Duration: 37min
  • NoraWebster 15 Ch14

    Duration: 46min
  • NoraWebster 16 Ch15

    Duration: 53min
  • NoraWebster 17 Ch16

    Duration: 44min
  • NoraWebster 18 Ch17

    Duration: 43min
  • NoraWebster 19 Ch18

    Duration: 01h05min
  • NoraWebster 20 Credits

    Duration: 01min