Cathy Bramley Audiobooks

My Kind of Happy: flowers, fresh starts and feel-good British fiction

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

2 listener ratings

Who is Cathy Bramley?

Comfort is a craft, and Cathy Bramley works at it. My Kind of Happy is a novel about starting again after loss, in which a woman grieving a family tragedy begins keeping a list of the small things that lift her, and finds that flowers keep appearing on it.

From there the book becomes a story about turning a private consolation into something useful to other people, by way of a floristry that gives shape to the days. It is gentle fiction with a spine: the sadness underneath is real, and the recovery is earned rather than granted.

The tagging on this title leans towards home and self-improvement, which rather undersells it. This is warm, character-led British storytelling first, with the practical pleasures of flowers and arranging woven through it.

Cathy Bramley in audiobooks

Colleen Prendergast narrates, twelve and a half hours of it, which is a generous run for a book best taken slowly, an episode at a time. The novel first appeared as a serial, and it still reads that way in the best sense, each stretch offering its own small resolution.

This title is a scheduled arrival rather than one you can start tonight, so it is worth bookmarking for when it appears. Perfect for a low week, a bad winter, or any stretch when you would rather be handled kindly by a book. Browse what is already on the shelf below in the meantime.