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Love Anthony
- Narrated by: Debra Messing
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
From the award-winning New York Times best-selling author of Still Alice and Left Neglected, comes a heartfelt novel about an accidental friendship that gives a grieving mother a priceless gift: the ability to understand the thoughts of her eight-year-old autistic son and make sense of his brief life.
Two women, each cast adrift by unforseen events in their lives, meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship.
Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. Her marriage badly frayed by years of stress, she comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life.
Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband’s long-term infidelity. In an attempt to recapture a sense of her pre-married life, she rekindles her passion for writing, determined to find her own voice again. But surprisingly, as she does so, Beth also find herself channeling the voice of an unknown boy, exuberant in his perceptions of the world around him if autistic in his expression - a voice she can share with Olivia - is it Anthony?) - that brings comfort and meaning to them both.
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- MRS
- 28-05-18
Love anthony
A brilliant book written with great understanding and compassion the amount of research Lisa Genova does is incredible
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- KP
- 20-03-19
Life with Autism
An enjoyable, in many ways uplifting story told in a thoughtful way. Like Still Alice it gives a view of a not completely understood change condition from an unusual perspective.
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- Jackie
- 01-12-15
Poignant Story, evocative setting
Where does Love Anthony rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
In the top ten. Lisa Genova writes compassionately about the huge challenges that face parents of an autistic child and the inevitable strain on even a strong relationship. She focuses on how the mother (in this case) initially still tries to 'normalise' the child with the resulting frustrations and sadness this brings. This book is about strong women who support each other & laugh & cry together, set on Nantucket island on the coast of Maine with long beaches and all kinds of weather, the setting almost makes the book. True to life, don't look for happy endings.
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- Carol Gladwin
- 03-05-18
Beautifully written and read.
Great story and good characters. Really enjoyed the book. Loved the relationships between the characters.
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- Rebecca
- 12-08-21
Might have saved my life
In some stroke of serendipity I found this book in an old stack of books and was amazed when I read the synopsis. My son has non-verbal autism and my every second is taken up with caring for and worrying about him and it's an endless loop of exhaustion. I was slipping into a depression when I found this book again but didn't have time to read it, so I downloaded it as an audiobook. I cried often because everything about it is completely right and a complete mirror of my baby. Right down to the Pringles fascination. Olivia's thoughts made me feel less alone as a mother isolated by the experience of having a child with autism. My sincere thanks and congratulations to the author who deserves more clout for her work, especially this one. I know Lisa's other books are more well regarded but I think that's just because you have to have lived this to understand. Thank you.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-05-22
Definitely recommend!
A beautiful portrayal of autism from different perspectives. Society could hugely benefit from understanding the autism spectrum in greater depth.
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- Ellabeck
- 17-11-15
How to love Anthony
Overall this is an enthralling book for anyone with some experience of autism. The first half was too long drawn-out and nearly lost my interest due to the reader dropping her voice towards the end of sentences which made listening somewhat tedious. However, once the two main characters met, the pace picked up and my sympathy and curiosity were fully engaged. This writer has amazing insight into personalities and emotions.
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- Yvonne
- 08-04-13
Love Anthony
I enjoyed this book, but not as much as "Left Neglected" and "Still Alice" which I thought were more meaty. Nevertheless it is a good read, but somehow seems lighter in substance than the other two books. It was insightful into autistic spectrum disorder and described the little boy Anthony well. The back stories were not as well formed. I felt I needed to know more about the characters. Seeing Nantucket through the seasons made me want to visit.
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