Kimberley Gallagher Audiobooks

The Calm and Happy Home: a gentler way to run a household, read by its author

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.5/5 average

70 listener ratings

Who is Kimberley Gallagher?

The title does a great deal of the work before a word is spoken. The Calm and Happy Home promises an atmosphere rather than a system, and that distinction matters: this is the household shelf approached as a question of temperament, not of storage solutions.

Kimberley Gallagher takes the microphone personally, which is the clearest signal our catalogue offers. Writers who read their own domestic work tend to be the ones who mean it, and the entry is filed across two shelves at once, home and family life on one side, faith and spirituality on the other. That pairing suggests the calm on offer is meant to come from somewhere deeper than a tidy worktop.

Kimberley Gallagher in audiobooks

Six hours and twenty-two minutes is a generous length for the subject, long enough to build a case and return to it rather than fire off a list of tips. The author’s own voice carries it, unhurried by design.

Something close to seventy listeners have registered a verdict and the average settles at four and a half stars, a warm reception on a crowded shelf. Approach it as an evening companion rather than a manual to be raided, letting it run across a week instead of hunting for the useful bits. What is currently listed appears below.