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The story she left behind [sound recording] / Patti Callahan Henry.

Henry, Patti Callahan, (author,, narrator.). Whelan, Julia, 1984- (narrator.). Solomon, Theo, (narrator.).

Summary:

In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington's magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother. By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother's lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother's vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London's most deadly natural disasters, the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson's family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781797192864
  • ISBN: 1797192868
  • ISBN: 9781797192871
  • ISBN: 1797192876
  • Physical Description: 10 audio discs (12 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Simon & Schuster, [2025]

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Julia Whelan & Theo Solomon, [with Patti Callahan Henry].
System Details Note:
Compact discs.
Source of Description Note:
Title from container.
Subject: Missing persons > Investigation > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Women authors > Fiction.
Imaginary languages > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Transatlantic voyages > Fiction.
South Carolina > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 12 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 12 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Mars Hill Library AUDB HEN 10CD (Text) 30229101390754 Adult New Audiobook Available -
Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library CDBOOK HENRY (Text) 39493110135631 Adult Audiobook Available -
Cleveland County Main Library AUDIO CD F HENRY (Text) 22281510002736 Adult Audiobook Checked out 08/22/2025
Goldsboro Library CD HEN (Text) 990000000553927 Adult New Audiobook Available -
Haywood County Main Library CD F Henry (Text) 33115007711937 Adult New Audiobook Checked out 06/25/2025
Lewisville Branch HENRY, PATTI 10 CDS (Text) 2112502344068 Adult Audiobook Checked out 08/15/2025
Margaret and James Harper, Jr. Library BOCD HEN (Text) 31421621464313 Adult New Audiobook Available -
Moore County Library CD HENRY (Text) 48198030049940 Adult Audiobook Checked out 08/18/2025
Reynolda Manor Branch HENRY, PATTI 10 CDS (Text) 2112502335022 Adult Audiobook Checked out 08/26/2025
Rural Hall Branch HENRY, PATTI 10 CDS (Text) 2112502335011 Adult Audiobook Checked out 08/25/2025

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