Dean Burnett Audiobooks

Emotional Ignorance: fourteen hours on feelings, filed under health and wellbeing

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

57 listener ratings

Who is Dean Burnett?

There is a deliberate provocation in calling a book Emotional Ignorance. The phrase points the finger inward, at how little any of us actually understand about the machinery of our own feelings, and it sets up writing more interested in explanation than in reassurance.

Dean Burnett’s place in our catalogue is on the health and wellbeing shelf, though the title suggests work sitting at the more enquiring end of it. Fourteen hours is a great deal of room for a single subject, and books of that scale in this category tend to be the ones that go looking for the how and the why rather than handing over a list of things to try before bed.

Dean Burnett in audiobooks

The reading falls to Matt Addis, and the length asks something of narrator and listener alike. Fourteen hours is a long time to hold attention on an abstract subject, and the pacing of a delivery matters quite as much as the argument underneath it.

The score is solid and it rests on a genuinely useful number of listener verdicts rather than a scattered handful, which makes this a safer bet than most for a first purchase in the category.

Take it in sittings rather than in one run. The audiobook is waiting below.