Audiobooks Narrated by Clover Stroud

The Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go

Brought to you by Penguin. What is it that makes a home? What is a home without the roots that tie you to a place? What is a home when a family is split? Clover's eldest children are leaving home for university. Her husband Pete's work is in America. The only way for Clover and the younger children to live with him is to uproot, leave their rural life near the ancient Ridgeway in Oxfordshire and move to Washington DC. Forced to leave the home she loves and consider these questions, Clover sets out to explore the place where she lives, walk the Ridgway, understand a little of the history of her landscape and work out why it is that it is so hard for her to go. In doing so she paints a beautifully layered portrait of family, community and of belonging in a landscape that has drawn people to it for generation after generation. 'Clover Stroud is a fearless explorer of the human heart, and a writer of incomparable grace and passion.' Elizabeth Gilbert 'Clover's writing is sensationally beautiful.' Laura Cumming 'Stroud's writing is knife-sharp, beautiful and profound.' Madeline Miller ©2024 Clover Stroud (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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The Red of my Blood: A Death and Life Story

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Can death bring something good to my life?' A few weeks before Christmas, Clover's sister died of breast cancer, aged forty-six. Just days before, she had been given years to live. Her sudden death split Clover's life apart. The Red of My Blood charts Clover's fearless passage through the fi rst year after her sister's death. It is a book about what life feels like when death interrupts it, and about bearing the unbearable and describing an experience that seems beyond words. Lyrical, hopeful, it is also about the magical way in which death and life exist so vividly beside one another, and the wonder of being human. 'An absolute gutting masterpiece of a book.' LISA TADDEO 'Clover Stroud is a fearless explorer of the human heart, and a writer of incomparable grace and passion. She also understands more about loss, sorrow, grief, and resilience than most people will ever have to learn.' ELIZABETH GILBERT © Clover Stroud 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

Brought to you by Penguin. Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like – how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be. My Wild and Sleepless Nights examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair. Charting the course of one year, the first in her youngest child’s life, Clover searches for answers to questions that many of us would be too afraid to admit to – not only about motherhood, but also about female sexuality and identity. Her story will speak to all mothers, and anyone about to embark on that journey. 'Clover Stroud is a remarkable woman, and an incredible writer.' - Bryony Gordon ‘Clover Stroud is a force of nature.’ Elizabeth Gilbert © Clover Stroud 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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