Audiobook Held by Anne Michaels in the ListenBook app
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Book description
Anne Michaels' Held arrives as a profound auditory journey, its power magnified through the spoken word. Set against the stark aftermath of a 1917 battlefield blast, John's fragmented consciousness unfolds in the audiobook's opening lines-snow falling, memory surfacing like submerged light. The narrator's measured pace mirrors John's struggle, making his lost limbs and flickering recollections feel visceral, immediate. You hear the weight of silence between thoughts, the gentle crackle of a winter bath, the distant clatter of a railway pub.
This isn't merely a story told; it's a resonance felt. As John returns to North Yorkshire in 1920, reuniting with artist Helena, the audiobook masterfully threads time. Ghosts of the past-both literal and emotional-surface not as interruptions, but as natural echoes, their whispers carried through the narrator's voice. You don't just learn about John's ghosts; you feel their insistent presence, the way they disrupt his quiet life, his photography studio, the way snow still drifts across decades.
Michaels' prose, already luminous on the page, gains new depth in audio. Phrases like "sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later" become almost musical, the rhythm guiding you through four generations. The narration doesn't rush the connections-between John and Helena, between a soldier's trauma and a modern field hospital, between Darwin's theories and the simple act of knitting a North Sea gansey. Each leap in time feels earned, the voice tracing the quiet threads of desire, loss, and the relentless human search for meaning.
What elevates this audiobook is its refusal to simplify. The narrator doesn't shy from the novel's complexity-how a hot bath with a lover echoes a battlefield memory, how a photograph captures a moment that outlasts the subject. You hear the weight of "We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?" in the narrator's quiet intensity, making it less a question and more a shared, aching truth. The historical touches-early photography, Ella Mary Leather's poetry, Sir Ernest Rutherford's work-aren't footnotes; they're woven into the fabric of the story, felt in the narrator's cadence.
This is a novel that lingers, and the audiobook ensures it does. The voice doesn't merely read; it invites you into the space between snowflakes, between past and present, between the unspoken things we carry. You close your eyes, and suddenly, you're on that riverbank, hearing the snow fall, feeling the ghosts whisper. Held isn't just about being held by memory or love-it's about how stories, when given voice, become the very thing that holds us.
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