Audiolibro Ripeness

From 1960s Italy to present-day Ireland, Ripeness is the story of a family secret that rips a teenage girls world apart, only for her to discover its true meaning decades later.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, Sarah Moss.

Moss makes every moment count - The Sunday Times
A book of lasting pleasures - Eleanor Catton
Powerful and beautifully written - The Guardian

Just out of school and teetering on the brink of adulthood, Edith is sent alone to rural Italy. Her task is simple: support her sister Lydia, a brilliant but brittle ballet dancer, through the final weeks of her pregnancy. Once the baby is born, she is to make a phone call that will change all of their lives forever.

Decades later, Edith is living a contented life in Ireland, happily divorced and finally free. But with the arrival of an unexpected message, Edith must face the truth of that long-ago summer, and the secret she has carried for a lifetime.

‘Tender and rueful’ - Emma Donoghue
A delicious novel - Literary Review
Sublime . . . glorious - Vogue
Luminous - Financial Times
Beautifully crafted . . . absorbing and moving - Daily Mail