Anna Kilpatrick Audiobooks

Not Needing New: second-hand living and the quiet joy of enough

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Who is Anna Kilpatrick?

The case against buying new is usually made with a wagging finger. Anna Kilpatrick makes it differently, as an invitation rather than a reprimand, which is why Not Needing New reads as a practical guide instead of a penance.

Her subject is the whole apparatus of consumption at home: clothes, furnishings, holidays, the things acquired for children who outgrow them in a season. The argument is that a second-hand life is not a diminished one but a better designed one, with more style in it and less noise. Sitting across our wellbeing, home and personal development shelves, it belongs as much to the literature of contentment as to the literature of sustainability.

Anna Kilpatrick in audiobooks

She narrates it herself across just under seven hours, and that decision suits a book of this sort. Advice about how to live carries further in the voice of the person actually living it, and the tone stays conversational rather than instructive throughout.

Early listeners have been unanimously enthusiastic, though the sample is still small. It works best taken in order, since the chapters build a method rather than offering isolated tips. Have a look at the audiobooks below to get started.